A New Book about Georgia

Just in time, while the world's attention is focused on Georgia, comes a new book from it and about it. A love story... Georgian-Russian at that. Reissued on Sept. 21 by a good friend and fellow Svaneti fanatic, Peter Nasmyth. See details at http://www.mtapublications.co.uk/ and note, incidentally, the company logo design, which I contributed during my recent visit to Peter in London. The book is also on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Nicholas-Tchkotoua/dp/0955914515/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220842775&sr=1-2

I'm off to Kakheti again until Wednesday. More images to follow then, stay tuned.

Retro Graphics Day 3...

All printing stages of my favourite 6-colour hand-screen-printed baseball cap crest; from my days with Solid Rock Signs, the screen printing company where I worked from 1985-89. George often gave me highly detailed artwork like this piece, for a wild game farm. (The little crosses in bottom left and top right corners are registration marks, which I printed to help me line up the 6 colours of ink. After printing, the crest would be cut out with scissors and its edge stitched with a surging machine; then it would be attached to a baseball cap with hot glue from a glue gun.)
It was a joy as well as a challenge for me to print many hundreds of copies from such original designs. I owe you guys so much for all that you taught me there, about work (my first full-time job) and about many other important things.

It's Retro Graphics Day 1 on the Blog.

I was seriously into photocopying as an art form for a while in the late 1980s. From bottom to top: first, a copy of one of my portraits, followed by a copied-until-toneless closeup.

Next, putting my own face on the photocopier, moving it while the copy was being made! I actually used this as my artist's photo for an exhibition in about 1989.

Finally, Terry's and my hands on the photocopier; the black spaces cried out for eyes to be added; the whole thing called "Save Me", which I screen printed poster-size in about 1988, in an edition of seven.