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I was working on a series of prints titled "Wee Beasties" and I was searching for new subjects in entomology texts. I turned a page and there it was, in the "bug book". . . SPANISH FLY . . . It really existed! Wonder-Of-Wonders! A substance I had written off long ago as a myth actually existed! I learned that its scientific name is Lytta Vesicatoria and it lives in Europe (including Spain). I also learned there's a preparation of juice from this insect called cantharides, which is said to act as an aphrodisiac! "That has to be the stuff we were obsessed with in high school", I thought. There's only one small problem: according to the book, as little as 0.03 gr. is a lethal dose! Fortunately, when I was in high school, we never found any.
I produced some prints of my interpretation of "Spanish Flies" then; when my old Vandercook SP 15 proofing press was moved from storage, into the new studio, I figured it ought to have a name. People give names to inanimate things like ships. This machine was an important part of the new studio and it needed a name. Since I was in the middle of printing these Spanish Fly prints and the insect series was on my mind, it seemed natural to give this old piece of machinery that name. |
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A WORD ABOUT PRINTS . . . The prints I make are original prints, not reproductions of a drawing or a painting. The images are printed from a block, metal plate or stone, which has been engraved, etched or drawn upon by me. The editions (multiples of the same image) are limited . . . very limited, numbered and signed. |
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