Woodcuts
The process is low tech at its finest. Stanford cuts away the surface of the block so that those parts of the surface do not print. The parts left will be printed. The press is her feet and an old wooden spoon.
The last step is sewing the image onto carefully chosen fabric which provides a setting, structure, and a mechanism for hanging. A year may pass between the inception and the completion of a project because Stanford may work on as many as eight blocks at a time..
Featured Woodcuts
Americans, 76” x 32”, woodcuts on cotton, sewn cotton background
Big Bee · 2017 · woodcut on cotton · 30” x 18”
Big Chicken · 2015 · woodcut on cotton ·, 22” x 17”
Blue Riding Hood, 2020, linocuts on cotton, machine embroidery, 15” x 36”
December 26 · 2016, linocut on cotton, sewn background, 18” x 18”
First Marriage, 2020, linocuts on cotton, 17” x 17”
Hood Cutter · 2020 · linocuts on cotton, appliqué, embroidery 36” x 18”
Hybrid · 2020 · woodcuts on cotton, some woven, 43” x 19”
Incarnations, 2020, linocuts on cotton, some woven 24” x 22”
Marriage, 2020, linocuts on cotton, machine embroidery, 15” x 44”
Ruminants · 2018 · woodcuts on cotton, 19” x 32”