week sixteen - scale with colour

I've been looking at Susie McMurray at the London Art Fair and her huge drawings of hair nets. I like her reference to women, and how the insignificant becomes the subject of her work. 

I experimented with placing collage on my print, with a view to later using the images as a chine colle, trapping the residuals of family life between the prints of the lino - large scale drawings of  toothbrushes, tissue, wrapping paper etc. 

Following on from my mock up with the collage, I have printed another large scale block print, as a double plate ((12 plates in total). This time with colour, using plain rolled up lino as the background. I've used blue and green to reference "bathroom-type" colours, and again used all the lino that I have previously etched. I've encapsulated bits of paper and tissue bringing another layer to the print; another dimension.

I am hoping that these images, which encompass accidental marks and indeterminacy of the acid etch process, start to allude to atmospheric landscapes and lived-in domestic environments. There seems to be a tension between the flatness of the print and chine colle,  with the alluded depth of some of the images. 

 I am intending to make more lino tiles and print even bigger so that the prints move out of the usual format, becoming almost unmanageable.