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Patrick Jacobs

Night Spirits I, Installation View
Printmaking has become a crucial part of “Nocturnes” and Jacobs’ practice as an artist over the past seven years, working with master printer Dan Waller. They determined early on that they did not want to make editions, but unique images made in the moment and impossible to reproduce. “Gradually I developed symbolic imagery that became “Pink Nightfall,” recalling the body, flesh and blood as well as the flora and fauna of the night. But it was the viscosity printing…that opened up entirely new possibilities. This process involves wiping and rolling ?on several inks of differing viscosities onto an etched plate. The inks flow into the grooves, mixing and repelling in unpredictable ways. The viscosity prints depict darker themes often with bright colors and gestural strokes. They were consistent with the haphazard viscosity of the mud pieces. In turn, the dioramas themselves became more viscous, soupy, with biological material, sludge, mud, moss and fungi.” –Jacobs