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Block Cut Monotypes
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I etch my black & white drawing into a block of acrylic producing a raised surface.

Then I ink the block using rollers, brushes & rags.

Next I impress the image into cotton fiber paper by rubbing with a wooden spoon.

Each impression is a hand-painted original and a unique interpretation in color of the black & white drawing.

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A Season of Change 18"x 18"

Suburban Flight 18"x 18"

Human Stonehenge 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"

The Solar System 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"

Purchasing Block Cut Monotypes:

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

8" x 8" unframed $75

8" x 8" framed $200

18" x 18" unframed $200

18" x 18" framed $400

Block Cut THEMES:

•A Season of Change-- A feeling of oppressive weight is upon you. But optomism prevails, and the figures are seen rising up in triumph and the downward swooping birds begin an upward ascent.

•Opposing Forces-- The Little Prince by St Expurey tells the story of a man on his own personal planet. I imagined what might happen if someone joined him. They struggle over the land and eventually build a wall. This is essentially the history of human settlement. The other panels are similar ways in which human beings tend to polarize. Smokers vs nonsmokers, the haves & have nots, and finally the group where one person rebels and leaves, or is ostracized.

•Suburban Flight-- In the 60's & 70's Americans 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.

•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-- A Kafa-esque view. One morning you awake and enter the familiar routine but its different somehow. Pedestrians dominate 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.

•The Geocentric Solar System-- 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.

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

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Suburban Flight 18"x 18"	Human Stonehenge 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"


The Solar System 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"