print – Kaiser Caimo

20,000 NON-LETHAL MILES

(Part 1 of 3).

A comic/zine about learning to ride a motorbike that I started a few months back. Right now Ireland is in lockdown, our hospitals and care services are overwhelmed and government restrictions forbid us from travelling more than 2km unless it’s for essential supplies. So being in confinement and working on this comic about freedom/fear of mortality in between caring for my very frail grandmother has been a hell of a trip in itself.

The full thing is available in PDF form on Gumroad here for $1/pay what you want: https://gumroad.com/l/hXOCF

Untitled, collagraph, waterbased ink.

Experimenting with collagraphy, which is basically gluing detritus to a piece of cardboard and using it to make prints.

Untitled, collagraph print with waterbased ink.

Water-based ink print.

Water-based ink/gouache print.

Watercolour print. I made about 60 of these over two days. I have no idea what to do with them. Are they finished?

SO. hello.

Since the move, I have been really, really unfocused. I have no idea what I’m doing. It’s…fine, actually. It’s great. I am not worrying about the future, or dwelling on things that don’t matter, or making any plans whatsoever beyond the level of “maybe I will buy a nice pencil today”. My sleep patterns are all over the place, I am probably drinking too much and I think I have forgotten how to read but that is okay. For now.

Since my attention span is shot, I am not committing to any large-scale or long-term painting projects just now. Instead, in the spirit of spontaneity, I’ve been messing about with low-fi, quick & dirty, one-off print techniques – monoprint/monotype, frottage, collagraph, and what-have-you.

Untitled prints, water-based ink on various papers.

Female head study. Monoprint, approx 5×7", and the preliminary sketch.

Female figure study. Monoprint + white pencil. Approx 5×8"

I had these prints stashed away in a folder because they didn’t print right and I thought they looked sloppy and illegible. Then I decided, ACTUALLY, I quite like them. So here they are.

Monoprint + graphite/white pencil, approx 5"x7"