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Scrolls

Work details

My work with the copy machine developed into the creation of this series of Scrolls or Chakra Man and Woman. I was working with a printmaking house in Kensington and they gave me access to their large copy machine after hours. I created the series laying sections of my naked body in turn on the machine. I also persuaded my partner, Nik Douglas, to do the same. I then put the body sections together to make the basis of my versions of the Chakra Man Tantric paintings that impressed me so much.

I used some of the original xerox mono prints in a number of the pieces. I also made silkscreens from a few of them and printed them – sometimes as the final artwork, usually adding collage elements. Within the series, a number employ Tantric symbolism, others gnostic and alchemical, while there are those that celebrate the sensuality of fruits and flowers. I saw them as imprints of slices of my being.

  • Vision of the Rose

    Body monoprint with collage on paper 10 x 45 inches

  • Sulphur & Mercury

    Body monoprint with collage on paper 10 x 45 inches 1976

  • Hermaphrodite Tree

    Monoprint with collage on paper 10 x 40 inches

  • Morphology (Chakra Girl)

    Body monoprint with collage on paper 10 x 37 inches 1976

  • Gnosis (Gnostic Alchemical scroll)

    Monoprint with collage on paper 10 x 40 inches 1976

  • Lotus Woman

    Body monoprint with collage on paper 10 x 41 inches 1976

  • Primal Man

    Body monoprint with collage on paper 10 x 69 inches 1976

  • Shiva Lord of Snakes

    Silk screen from monprint with collage + feathers 10 x 66 inches 1976

  • Shiva- Garuda Gateway

    Body monoprint with collage on paper 10 x 55 inches 1976

  • Chakra Woman and Chakra Man

    Body monoprint with collage on paper 10 x 66 inches 1976 10 x 69 inches 1976

  • Grapevine

    Silk screen from monoprint on fine paper + collage 9.5 x 51 inches 1976

  • Golden Grapes

    Silk screen from monoprint on fine paper 9 x 50 inches 1976

  • Grapevine

    Body monoprint with collage on paper 10 x 52 inches 1976

  • Rose Devi

    Silk screen from monoprint on fine paper + collage 10 x 65 inches 1976

  • Rose Garden

    Silk screen from monoprint on fine paper + collage 8.5 x 64 inches 1976

  • Fruity Devi (Fruity)

    Silk screen from monprint with collage on paper 9 x 65 inches 1976

  • Tantric Abstraction

    Silk screen from monoprint on fine paper + collage 10 x 66 inches 1976

  • Devi

    Silk screen from monoprint on fine paper + collage 10 x 66 inches 1976

  • Red Bird

    Silk screen monoprint with collage and feathers 10 x 65 inches 1976

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