Tammy Wofsey / Other Voice on Green

Traffic . Linocut Chine-colle’ Prints

Traffic?

The word can have a few meanings. For myself it is the
consumption of space and time. I let the traffic into
myself.

I began using a bicycle after moving to New York City
ten years ago. After thousands of miles between work,
studio and home, I have started to reconsider. I don't
have the $20,000 suit of highly polished armor as I
ride down the road, I look in through the other
people's windows, and see the car's prisoners of
status and safety.

But then two weeks of cycling in Copenhagen, returned
me to NYC not quite the skeptic I was. In my mind
there is now a perfect place where the streets become
calm, and by shoe or by tire, everyone smiles. The fog
of grey hydrocarbon congeals into a fluffy white cloud
and a stratospheric happy face.

My series of linocut chine-colle’prints is an attempt to
reconsider car culture.

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About Web Plotzing Press

http://plotzingpress.com
“I’m plotzing over here!” my mother would shout on

various stress-related occasions. It means, “I’m about to

explode, and everything is coming apart, what to do?”
As a macaroni and bean collagist who grew up in Colorado

I knew this Yiddish word would someday find future meaning.

I later attended SUNY College at Purchase where I studied

printmaking and book arts. This is when my blood began

to flow with ink.
After graduation I started working as a monitor in exchange

for print shop time at Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop.

The transformation of an art student to printmaker began.

Ideas, lifelong friendships and experimentation brewed.

While printing at the workshop, I took the pragmatic

approach and worked towards a library science degree.
I then set up shop in Brooklyn where my etching and

typeset presses now live.
Eventually, my studio did explode … literally, as

thousands of cubic feet of natural gas knocked down

walls and flooded the floor. My presses somehow

gained mutations that allowed them to undo years

of my work in a blink. Things come apart. What to do?
Plotz.

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For information on Tammy Wofsey, click on her web site

listed on the right on this blog , under "Other Voices on Green"

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All 3 images © artist Tammy Wofsey