I have been working as a graphic designer for over a decade. During my years studying, the computers had recently taken over the graphic design industry. There for I have been sitting in front of the display most working days since then.

In the recent years I’ve felt an increasing urge to use my hands and fingers in the creation – without the mouse serving as a poor messenger from my hands to the screen. There is an important brain – hand connection that is lost in the digital environment. That’s why I started using pencils and paper few years back. I love the smell of the pencils, paper and eraser – I especially love how liberating it is.
This is the same reason why I enjoy, no sorry, I love silk screening so much. The smell of the colors, the feel of the wood and tight screens, eyeballing the color mix, pulling the colors through the screens with my hands, seeing the design come to live before my eyes. Using all those different muscles – not only my butt and fingers, and sometimes even breaking a sweat.

 

And that is why I love silk screening.