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Living 1988 in Berlin, the still divided city, within the Wall around the western part, I was making woodcut prints, because that was a cheap and readily available method of distributing images.

I found some small, left-over wooden blocks and printed the surfaces without cutting anything, like making souvenirs or big postcards from the area, I thought.

And I had the idea of printing text to those images the same way, which is block print.

As I hadn't prepared any text, the concept was to cut the letters and print the messages maybe later.

To clarify that, I made a small sketch. Like the animals in the Ark, all the letters of the alphabet come in pairs and fill up a ship, heading for the future.

The year after, in June 1989, and before the Wall broke November 9, I cut and printed the alphabets in very large letters.

VIRTUAL WOODSCAPE BEGAN HERE: I found this plywood board when I visited Trondheim to exhibit my wood prints and letterprints from Europe at the University Library.
2004, Trondheim, Norway
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