Coil - Gold Is The Metal print orig linoblock Peter Christopherson GOLD LEAF for Sale

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Coil - Gold Is The Metal print orig linoblock Peter Christopherson GOLD LEAF For Sale

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Coil - Gold Is The Metal print orig linoblock Peter Christopherson GOLD LEAF:
$30.73

Last remaining linoprint! This series is long since sold out (left in a high place to dry last year and I forgot where it was....)
£23
This is a lino print made by me in Sept - Oct 2024 from the original lino block used for the Coil album Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders). The original lino was cut by Sleazy in 1987 to a design suggested by John Balance.
Sleazy\'s lino block was used to create at least one print for the album cover, which (the lino block) then lay unused for the next 25 years in London, after which I became the owner via Thighpaulsandra. The prints are my own creation; the finished designs are my combinations of inks, layers, textures and materials inspired by the original album cover.I\'ve added gold leaf to echo some of the rare original special editions of the album. I\'ve given each print a title. There is no edition number: each creation is unique…maybe you could think of each as being \'1/1\', from a pool of around 30 in total. I have not inscribed any of the prints on the front, but have titled, dated and signed each on the back in white ink. No copyright is being infringed: the majority of the visual artistic creation here is mine.The printed area is 15 x 15cm and the black paper is an LP size 31 x 31cm (approx).None are being sold framed.I will ship the print by wrapping it first in protective thin paper and use good, strong cardboard album to send anywhere in the world, tracked and insured at actual postage cost only.Postage internationally is £12 tracked, I\'ll refund you if the actual price is less.I\'m happy to answer any Qs about the print, the process, the background and the logistics.Some more back story:Making the prints was a messy, intense and curious experience, following so closely in the footsteps of Sleazy\'s initial creation during a key period in the band\'s history, just as they were finding their alchemical feet. In reality, the lino block is tiny compared to the 12 inch square album - just 15cm on each side of the design. Sleazy has used the larger lino space to mix red and green inks with his small ink roller, and it looks like he used a sponge to create layers of texture before making a single print for the album cover. An untouched photograph of that original print shows the various tiny clothes fibres and dog hairs that only become apparent when wet paint is in play (these were airbrushed out of the finished album cover). Later, the pale square text box was added and some versions of the cover were embellished with gold leaf. The finished print itself was reversed in the darkroom (or somewhere) so that the four-fold symmetry of the original lino cut design is orientated the same way as the album sleeve. Somewhere, there exists that original first print, 15 x 15cm but reversed in a way that would look somewhat unfamiliar to most fans of the album. With the then-recent addition of Otto Avery to the band, Coil had become four-sided; perhaps the emblem explores this development as well as the longer tradition of the four-fold, hooked cross archetype. I continued making various experiments and test prints with the block, adding gold leaf to some (including plain and variegated gold leaves) and exploring different papers, colour combinations and layering techniques.

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Coil - Gold Is The Metal print orig linoblock Peter Christopherson GOLD LEAF For Sale

Coil - Gold Is The Metal print orig linoblock Peter Christopherson GOLD LEAF: $30.73

Coil - Gold Is The Metal print orig linoblock Peter Christopherson GOLD LEAF:
$30.73