Heavy Friends II - Pentre Ifan, 2024

Print size 9.6 x 6.2 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 second in a new series of small prints focusing on dolmens and quoits, the remains of prehistoric burial chambers.

Whilst it is inconclusive if Pentre Ifan was ever used as a burial chamber, I see this facade of the monument to be the entrance way, flanked by stones to the side, the entrance remains blocked by a huge flat stone resolutely guarding the way in, or out, despite the sides now open and exposed by thousands of years of erosion.

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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