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How to I use  the linoleum cut technique and why ? my life experience?

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Vik Adhopia, CBC National Reporter, interviewing me near my linoleum cuts commissioned by Harper’s  for the September 2011 issue

 

by Vik Adhopia – National Reporter Canada . Among the questions :

  • How do I use the linoleum cut technique ? Cut and print?  Very challenging to explain with words without any visual support to an audience of none initiated listeners
  • Vik who lived in Japan was knowledgeable about the Japanese prints and of course the ancient Indian wood block to dye silk!
  • What make this technique so special compare to other techniques use in illustration?
  • How do  I proceed working from start to finish when I get a commission from a publisher?
  • How was New York after September 11 and how did this after people lives, my live?
  • Why do i use such a “dark” subjects like “Darfur” conflicts? and more…

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linoleum cuts, photographs and texts copyright Raymond Verdaguer, 2011.