Ian William Craig
Ian William Craig presented some videos ahead of his August 5-26 UK tour supporting his remarkable new album Centres (130701 / FatCat Records) that provide insights into the making of the album cover, to a rendering for “Contain (Astoria version)” where the camera lens gets swapped for a magnifying glass that magnifies the alt-fi fuzz chamber sounds. Ian shared the following words on the new video cycles:
The drawings on the cover of Centres come from a suite made with opaque black pigments on mylar, which is a transparent material. This interplay between opaque and transparent areas allowed me to burn the image onto a plate like a photograph and then print it lithographically. These small vignettes document that process, from the development and preparation of the plate, to the printing of the lithographs, and finally to cleaning everything up. Hopefully the camera revealed a bit of the poetry I find so inspiring about printmaking.