Anality in the Bathroom

TODAAAAAAYYY....the guy came to assess the bathroom floor. They'd laid the tile several months ago and cracks had appeared inbetween. No one was sure why. After some chin-scratching, it was decided it'd be best to redo it.

While he was recovering from removing the tiles and  mastic, I invited him to look at some of Michelle's prints.

Ms. Cook was so A-R (anal-retentive) about her work she would sometimes do more than a hundred prints to get 25 or thirty into an edition. Each color was laid down with its own stencil in a separate pass. Most artists limit their serigraphs to ten or twelve colors. Andy Warhol typically used six to eight. Michelle commonly used over 40.

One of the standards of serigraphy is "No white from the underlying paper can show between colors." Each color has to lie right NEXT to the other. If they overlap, the colors get "muddy;" if there's a gap, it's not quality work.

For many years her work was held up to other students in the University of New Mexico Print-making Department as an example of what's possible.

The floor came out perfectly.

For the moment, she's satisfied.