In 1998 Arthur Secunda created a series of images for a suite titled "Glacial Metaphors". These pieces reflect the artist's beautiful translation of glacial effects to the earth into artistic beauty.
The first piece for this series of serigraphs was published in 1999. The title is "Kettle Moraine Winter". The image size is 22" X 18" plus margins.
The second serigraph was published in 2000 and is titled Summer Rain. The image size is 22 1/2" X 18" plus margins.
The third serigraph was published in 2001 and is titled Reflections on Ice. The image size is 21 1/4" X 17 3/4" plus margins.
The high quality of each piece is a reflection of collaboration of the artistıs creative and print making skills, in concert with the foremost firm in the world in the field of serigraphy.
COMMENTS FROM THE ARTIST - Arthur Secunda
As an artist, I was fascinated by the concentration and profusion of marshes, eskers, kames and drumlins making up the surreal land contours reminding me of some kind of historic dreamscape filled vast epic earth metamorphoses. This inspired me to create a suite of serigraphs based not only upon my visualization of the imagery around me, but also of the feelings I experienced tasting the air, smelling the flowers and hiking in the mud.
I sketched and worked with watercolors and collage, doing renderings at key locations, so as not to forget a particular color or texture. Later I took photographs in the rain, in the mist and against the brilliant sunshine. These seemingly random experiments and encounters added up to a personal aesthetic discovery for me, allowing me to recall and develop new forms and color gradations in this suite of works whose theme is Kettle Moraine.
Finally, utilizing the technical expertise of Serigraph, Inc. to stretch the medium, as it were, proved to me that a happy marriage of art and technology can sometimes coexist and even merge to communicate aesthetic visual imagery in an accessible manner without sacrificing quality or high aspirations.