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Working Class or Just Playing

Middle Class (2016)

Middle Class (2016)

Middle Class (2016) – workshop version

Workshop version is my term designating specific pieces to be ongoing, incomplete, in progress. The term is borrowed from Charles Mingus, who characterized his ensembles in the fifties to be The Charles Mingus Workshop because he wanted to highlight the ongoing process of collaborative creation.

My blogging tenacity is waning while I prepare pieces for an art show here in Cleveland early next year. None of my pieces, since they are digital art, are finished until they are produced at full size. The full size specification is realized when the pieces are printed to aluminum or archival acrylic on giant flatbed UV curable ink jet printers, (by my finisher VistaImage here in Cleveland.)

Before a piece is finalized and finished it goes from being a workshop piece to being the final piece in a closed edition.

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