I remember when I created this piece.
My son Michio was attending elementary school in Japan,
and he was studying woodcut carving and printing.
I borrowed his tools, and bought small sized linoleum tiles
and carved 1 tile for this, printed 6 times...
I used acrylic gouache mixed on the tray, rolled on with a brayer...
But I wasn't satisfied with the flat look of it.
I used a tiny amount of red powdered food coloring I had on-hand,
mixed with water in a make-shift air brush:
an empty pump style plastic hair spray bottle.
Wow, it made such fine mist, and delicate layers of color!
Handprinted and "misted", I made only a few prints.
I also kept the tile.
It's my first time to present it, today...
"Bismillahi 'Rrahman 'Rrahim"
(H. Budd)
HaroldBudd, el. piano
Richard Bernas, celesta
Gavin Bryars, glockenspiel
Maggie Brown, harp
Marion Brown, alto sax
Howard Rees, Jo Julian, John White,
Michael Nyman, marimbas
Photo: Michio Yves Ueda
