This is one of my Suminagashi prints, somewhat edited in Photoshop to crop the image and slightly alter the color balance. While in creating a Suminagashi print you must leave quite a lot up to the laws of physics, it is possible to control your image to some extent, and I was able to do so at least a little in this one. But part of what I find intriguing and inspiring in creating Suminagashi prints is that those laws of physics (ink against water) always intrude their demands and make their own impact on the design!
Margy Nelson / yin yin yang yang
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This Is it perfectly balanced composition while being intriguingly asymmetrical. Following close on the heels of your one egg sketch, it’s hard not to think about frying eggs being the subject of this sumanagashi.
I agree with Diana. I thought of the eggs right away and wondered how they would look if paired on the gallery wall. The beginning of a series??
Reminds me of the German language colloquialism for fried eggs (two eggs). It’s “spiegeleier”, literally, “mirror eggs”.
There is a tongue-in-cheek German artist using the pseudonym Martha de Spiegeleier.
Margie how do you feel about everyone identifying your suminagachi as fried eggs? Were you at all thinking about that when you did this work?
No I wasn’t at all. The title explains it; I was trying to create something resembling the yin-yang design.
Margy, this is eggceptional. I was afried to make another comment that referenced a breakfast food, but I think I succeeded.
Oy! Out of the frying pan ….