Heavy Friends III - Carreg Samson, 2024

Print size 6.3 x 9.6 cm, paper size 17.8 x 16.7 cm. Linocut and monoprint, hand burnished on Tosa Shi 54gsm, edition of 50.
(Only available unframed.)

The third in a new series of small prints focusing on dolmens and quoits, the remains of prehistoric burial chambers.

Carreg Samson sits high on the Pembroke Coast in Wales, overlooking the bay. The capstone on this particular monument is oppressively huge, the uprights have an air of tiredness around them, as if the millennia of their burden is taking it's toll and slowly driving them into the soil.

People have been returning to these monuments for countless generations, even after the original rituals were lost to time. They have become familiar friends, a seemingly unchanging constant in a rapidly changing world.

A work of contrasts, I wanted to convey the immense mass of these monuments at a small scale and place the imposing permanence of the stone's silhouette against a monoprinted sky of ever changing soft cloud forms and light.

Title inspired by the track ‘Heavy Friends’ by Boris, from the album Heavy Rocks.

Due to the nature of monoprinting, the cloud forms and tones vary slightly across the edition.

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