I recently attended an exhibition at the SNAP Gallery, here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, that I found very inspiring. The mixed-print-media works of Erik Waterkotte drew me back to the gallery several times to view and ponder. Luckily, he was receptive to my request for an interview in two stages. This interview is mashed together from an email exchange and a subsequent telephone interview:
So what’s on your plate this week?
I am continuing to develop the series of prints you saw at the SNAP show along with another set of 6 prints for a show I have coming up in November.
So do you prefer to work on one or many images at the same time?
I prefer to work on several things at the same time. I kind of view it as a series and mostly that’s so I can kind of learn things from one endeavor to the next. I might try one thing on one image and it may go so-so, but then I can experiment and vary different processes on each image.
