Heavy Friends VI - Mên-an-Tol, 2026
£45.00
Print size 6.3 x 9.7 cm, paper size 17.8 x 16.7 cm. Linocut and monoprint, hand burnished on Tosa Shi 54gsm, edition of 50.
The sixth in an ongoing series of small prints focusing on dolmens, quoits and standing stones.
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.
Situated in west Cornwall, UK and believed to be once part of a wider circle, Mên-an-Toll is most likely a neolithic or bronze age monument and consists of three stones, two uprights and one striking central stone with an unusual, almost perfectly circular hole.
A work of contrasts, I wanted to convey the mass of these monuments in the vast landscape 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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