Harbor Fantasy - Shoji Screen Proof 2 by Don Gorvett

Harbor Fantasy presented as a two-sided Shoji screen.

Don Gorvett

Harbor Fantasy - Shoji Screen, 2004

Reduction woodcut

29 x 98 in

Proof 2

Available

Harbor Fantasy is a large ten-color reduction woodcut that required three separate blocks to be cut and printed simultaneously. The project took seven months from start to finish. The design was painted directly onto the block and cut and printed by the artist Don Gorvett, with the assistance of local artist Mark Phillips. On the reverse side is the image of the block after its fifth cut, then translated to a silk screen.

The Shoji screen is a traditional Japanese interior architectural structure used in the home. In this case, the Shoji screen construction allows for the woodcut Harbor Fanstay to be presented as an object and to be seen from all sides. This is one of three Shoji screens made with the woodcut Harbor Fantasy. One is in the permanent collection of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, along with the woodblock(s) that created it.