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Klecksographie: Cinderella

Lamb, Elspeth, 1951 (b.) (Artist)‎

Lithograph from stone with chine colle additions. This print engages with the fairytale of Cinderella along with the Chinese custom of foot binding, which some scholars believe is the origin of the Cinderella story. The text on the left is a quote from the Cinderella story. At the centre of the image is a bound foot in shades of blood red and pink. The gold shoe is an image by Andy Warhol called 'A la recherche du shoe perdu', a play on the Marcel Proust novel, 'A la recherche du temps perdu' [Remembrance of Things Past]. It refers to Cinderella's golden slipper. The text about foot binding on the right of the print is from an antiquarian book owned by the artist's uncle. The overlaid images are made using gampi silk tissue, a delicate Japanese paper, and the chine colle technique. The images are taken from litho stones dating to the 1930s which came from the publishers Blackie. A large number of stones from Blackie were given to the Glasgow School of Art and subsequently distributed to other organisations and individuals, including Elspeth and Glasgow Print Studio, she believes. Lamb found that the images were still viable to print. The print was made in the artist's studio, Bon a Tirer editions, on East Campbell Street. Aluminium photo plate litho was used for the text and stone litho was used for the images. It is one of a series of around eight prints called Klecksographie, which is the art of making images from ink blots, as used in Rorscach tests.

1998

Lithograph