Thousands of prints from many hundreds of people, belonging to print workshops across the British Isles, have all arrived at Hot Bed Press and are waiting to be sorted this week into boxed sets of twenty for each individual, before being sent out again. I was away for the sort last year, but shall offer to put in a day this time. It's a bit overwhelming, actually, in a sweetshop sort of a way - so much colour, so much choice. It would be wonderful to go greedily round picking this one, this one, ooooo got to have this one, but not surprisingly that isn't how it works. I'm looking forward as much as anything to seeing just how much space they all take up, pre-sort, this time round!
Of course, I did mine on the rather-too-late side (and (also of course) wasn't entirely satisfied with the end result - should I have stopped printing at an earlier stage? Too late now). Seven print sessions over, I think, eight days, and then I had to put paper as a temporary barrier between the finished prints in case, touch dry though they seemed, they still wanted to stick together - I didn't have spare time to wait for them to be convincingly dried out. I do hope they didn't stick, though - that would be a bit of a disaster! I'll find out this week, I guess.
Of course, I did mine on the rather-too-late side (and (also of course) wasn't entirely satisfied with the end result - should I have stopped printing at an earlier stage? Too late now). Seven print sessions over, I think, eight days, and then I had to put paper as a temporary barrier between the finished prints in case, touch dry though they seemed, they still wanted to stick together - I didn't have spare time to wait for them to be convincingly dried out. I do hope they didn't stick, though - that would be a bit of a disaster! I'll find out this week, I guess.
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