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A House is not a Home

About

The quote, "A House is not a Home", expresses how a structural house is not a home unless it contains inhabitants living in it. As someone who is deeply connected to family and frequently gets homesick, I identify with this saying and what it signifies.

Objective

Explore the fundamentals of figure/ground through the art of printmaking.
Final prints; reducing the color black to produce a bright red.
A typographic composition experimenting with overlapping and different line weights.

Process

Preliminary sketches done with marker on paper.
Test print on newspaper.
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Progress of woodcut and carving. Swipe to view.
Marissa Balbuena ©