[July 14, 2008]
I spent the morning putting together all the sections of Ruscha’s “All the Buildings on the Sunset Strip.” There were 38 different scans to put together, for 9 sections that wll be glued together to make a 304″ inch book, unfolded. I have been thinking about how to get this printed for weeks. I called Syracuse Blueprint Company, and they could do it on a 36″ wide roll. I laid out the sections onto 2 different pages and brought the disk in. It won’t be ready until tomorrow, at the earliest.
I then went into school ( Syracuse University, where I teach), and printed some images on different papers, especially on Epson’s Velvet Fine Art paper. I tried printing a painting on some ink jet canvas but it didn’t print well. While things were printing, I worked on the manuscript file.
In leaving, I noticed in the hallway a few assignments hanging on the wall: studies of master paintings–Vermeer and Velasquez. Around the corner in a short hallway is another drawing, based on Inges’ odalisque, I know this drawing has been on this wall for a while. It is such an ingrained part of art education to look at art history and to learn from it, or to reproduce it.
