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My printmaking themes consider our knowledge of past civilizations through the buildings they have left behind. What do our building practices & architecture say about us?
My printmaking is technically innovative, combining etching with relief block cut & monoprinting. I etch my black & white drawing into a block producing a raised surface.  The surface is inked by hand with multiple colors and impressed into cotton fiber paper by rubbing with a wooden spoon. Each impression is an unique interpretation in color of the black & white drawing.  

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A Season of Change 18"x 18"


All This Land, Nowhere to Graze 8"x 8"Two Conversations, Two Cities 8"x 8"The Civilization Project 18"x 18"World Championship Tennis 8"x 8"Andy? 8"x 8"


Suburban Flight 18"x 18"

All for One, One for All 8"x 8"

Renaissance Vitruvian Man 8"x 8"

Pit of Babel 8"x 8"

Unfurling Coliseum 8"x 8"



The Daily Commute 8"x 8"

Maple Seed Pod 8"x 8"

Trivial Pursuits 8"x 8"

The Kite Flyer 8"x 8"

Capitol Visitor 8"x 8"

Opposing Forces 18"x 18"

Homage to a Dreamer 18"x 18"

Forces of Nature 18"x 18"

The Roman Pantheon 8"x 8"

Departure 8"x 8"


above Mt Vernon Square 8"x 8"

Arrival, San Gimignano 8"x 8"

Bramante's Tempietto, Rome 8"x 8"

Campodoglio, biking 8"x 8"

Departure 18"x 18"



Philly in a Cup 8"x 8"

DC in a Cup 8"x 8"

Reading 8"x 8"

Jazz Singer Portia 8"x 8"

Writing 5"x 7"




Celestial Terrestrial Sphere DC 8"x 8"

Celestial Terrestrial Sphere NYC 8"x 8"

Celestial Terrestrial Sphere London 8"x 8"

Celestial Terrestrial Sphere 8"x 8"

First Attempt to go to the Moon 8"x 8"




Celestial Family 18"x 18"

Dupont in the Rain* 6.5" x 9"

Eastern Market, Capitol Hill* 6.5" x 9"

US Capitol* 6.5" x 9" Library of Congress* 6.5" x 9"

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Email: TBucci@aol.com
Call at: 202-415-6080

8" x 8" unframed $90

8" x 8" framed $200

18" x 18" unframed $200

18" x 18" framed $400

THEMES:

•A Season of Change--  Switching back & forth between optomism & pessimism about our built environment, this surreal image suggests some of each.

•Opposing Forces--  In this story of a man on his own personal planet, I imagined what might happen if someone joined him.  As they struggle over the land, eventually they build a wall.  This is the history of human settlement.  The other panels depict additional ways in which human beings tend to polarize.  Smokers vs nonsmokers, the haves & have nots, and an individual vs a group where one person rebels and leaves, or is ostracized.

•Suburban Flight-- In the 60's & 70's Anericans left cities.  The suburbs were built in what became known as urban flight.  Many people are returning to the blighted urban neighborhoods and cities are being renewed. The foreground consists of monotonous boxes and few signs of life while the city with all of its varied buildings is seen gleaming in the distance.

•The Civilization Project-- Concentric layers depict architecture through the ages.  Each layer is literally built upon the acheivements and the stones of the previous builders. Starting with prehistory, then Egyptian, followed by Greek & Roman, then Medieval. Next is the Renaissance to the 19th century. Finally the outer ring with 20th century to the present.

•Trivial Pursuits-- Inspired by an old photo my Dad took in the 50's of the haystacks on the Italian farm my grandfather came from.  My grandfather's immigration has allowed his decendents to enjoy a different life.  The long days of farm work stand in stark contrast to a leisurely activity such as flying a kite, as a bird coasts by lazily on an updraft.

•Celestial Terrestrial Sphere-- A phantom view of the world, familar but elusive.  There are no roads or urban patterns.  A surreal stage set swirls 360° around a center encompassing earth and sky.

•Homage to a Dreamer/ The Kite Flyer--  As a villager flies a kite, his imagination soars up with it.  The viewer's vantage point is that of the kite itself, looking down on the village and the rooftops.

•First Attempt to go to the Moon-- Another homage to the dreamer.  A villager attempts an epic but ill-conceived trip to the moon in an air balloon.  Even though his attempt is bound to fail, his dream ultimately inspires others with the technical prowess to accomplish the feat.

•Departure-- A picturesque village that I have often imagined, symbolized by an air balloon.  Letting my thoughts drift like a balloon voyage, they have a definite point of departure but the path and direction are subject to chance.

•Arrival-- The excitement and anticipation of arriving in a new place and seeing it for the first time.  How different it looks after it becomes familiar, sometimes in as little as a few days and the first impression becomes a vague and distant memory.

•All for One, One for All-- Group dynamics. One person leads or assumes command. Or one person is ostracized and reviled by the group.

•Maple Seed Pod (OBSERVE)--There is so much beauty in simple or common things that is easy to overlook.

•Pit of Babel-- Futility. The Tower of Babel was man's attempt to reach the heavens. The biblical account says that God disrupted to work by giving all the workers a different language and throwing the project into confusion, and creating the world's languages in the process. A more practical explanation could be that as they dug clay around the structure for their bricks, they inadvertantly undermined the foundation, slowly sinking the building as the bricks piled higher.  Vainly trying to ascend, they never got above the break even point.

•Renaissance Vitruvian Man-- Vitruvius was a 1st c. BC Roman who codified the architecture of his day. His book on architecture became the source of the proportions & details for buildings of the Italian Renaissance 1500 years later. DaVinci honored him with his famous drawing illustrating how proportion relates to the human body.

•Unfurling Coliseum--  A building as a organic object capable of opening like a flower.

•Capitol Visitor-- Originally the Empire State Building was planned to have a docking station for dirigibles at its top. I've extended this idea to the US Capitol.

•DC in a Cup-- Two of my favorite things converge as I look down into my morning coffee cup and the city emerges from it.

•The Daily Commute--  One morning the familiar routine is different somehow. Pedestrians dominate a bizzare environment in a change from the usual landscape designed for automoblles.

•Forces of Nature-- Lines swirl and tangle into patterns of natural forces such as lightning, whirlpools, wind & magnetic fields.

•Celestial Family-- Our planet & the worlds around it. The Earth is depicted at the center reflecting our earthbound view, despite the fact that science makes it obvious that we are just another planet in a typical solar system that is repeated countless times throughout the visible universe.

•Two Conversations, Two Cities--

•Andy?-- Andy Goldsworthy and Andy Warhol. Two artist Andys with ideas about permanence. Warhol reveled in popular culture and offered us each a moment lasting about 15 minutes. Goldsworthy shows us the ephemeral aspects of nature.

•World Championship Tennis-- A tennis match becomes the entire world and all that matters to the players.  Soon it's over and forgotten as if it never happened.

•All this Land & Nowhere to Graze-- Often we have so much of everything except the one thing we need most.
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