SOLSTICE AVENUE PRODUCTION

A little while back I blethered on for some time about making the drawings for this year's solstice print; Golden Solstice Avenue. Now, after the installation of the Hollywood Dooom exhibition in Cardiff, there's time to continue with that. As I mentioned, this year's print had to be approached a bit differently due to the nature of the image; so here are the drawings, lined up for registration and then, on the right, the first layer of 23.5ct gold...

Then it's a case of printing the first layer of black, which is the background, and then another layer of gold over the top of that...

And so on. To me this kind of stuff is endlessly fascinating, but I can appreciate that photograph after photograph of what seems like an interminable process could be construed as a bit dull, so, fortunately for you, Comrade Winstanley has created a nice animated gif to demonstrate the process in a modern, zingy, zappy kind of way. It's like witchcraft, only without the hangings on the village green.

I'm afraid you'll have to refresh the page if you want to see that again, or if you missed it as you were checking your facebook page or something. It's good, isn't it? (Actually it only seems to work once. No idea why. I'll get our technical support team onto it right away. Except they're at the pub. And actually don't really exist. (apparently it works on Safari)) But not as good as the real, finished, 23.5ct gold print. Here's a digital/photographic representation of said article:

Not fucking bad, was my verdict. So, yes. As usual, the edition is 24 prints, but the price of each print has risen from £200 to £250, because although the price of gold has taken a slight fall recently, the overall trend is relentlessly upward, and besides, the price of good rum is going up all the time.
All of the details about size of print, of paper, and purchasing, and all of that can be found on a little web shop made especially for the Golden Solstice Avenue.