Today we travel to 1980
In 1980 we move to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan so I could attend graduate school at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. I started thinking about narrative ideas and images for our initial assignment in the printmaking department. We had to do a suite of 10 prints in an edition of 10. We had to use all four printmaking processes (intaglio, lithography, serigraph, and woodcut). We also had to create a collophon title page using a typesetting press and a portfolio for the prints to be kept in. We had 2 weeks to complete the assignment.
This was in my sketchbook as one possible direction to go. I eventually chose to do a series of images surrounding my having been burned over 70% of my body 7 years earlier instead.
Drawing by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily