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A sgraffito style, black and white print of a lawn chair with a map in the background. The background has a few thick black lines running across the piece, turning at right angles, symbolizing roads. In the middle of the right side of the piece is a square made by these roads and inside the square reads “FERNWOOD PARK”. The road that makes up the left side of this square is labels “W 104th”. The other roads have some labeling, but not all are distinguishable. In the center of the piece is an Adirondack chair. The wood grain is accentuated as is the grass beneath it.
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Charles Boone

Upon shutdown, all access to conventional printmaking facilities was severed. I had to find a new method of making prints and turned to linocut. This involved some adaptation of tools and thought process, but also the challenge of how to manage the process in a precise manner.
The medium of printmaking in general allows for a dialogue between the referential image, the remembered image, and works we know as printed images. I began working with base images of printed material as a reference to history—my own and that of the broader world as the polarized politics of our day also unfolded. This led most notably to a reflection upon the memories of my childhood superimposed on the redline boundaries that (de)formed my neighborhood. Ultimately these works are simply a commentary upon our world—finding the joyful moment in the mess that is our culture and history.