After the debacle of my recent holiday to Morocco I have to admit I’m just about fully recuperated. The skin seems intact and now I’m focusing on my biggest challenge yet to setting up my elusive silk screen print studio. I bought a bargain screen print dryer on Ebay (I know) for a phenomenally cheap £11.95. The postage knocked it up to over £100 – still I saved over a grand on anything similar out there. What gets me is I’m having real trouble removing the rust. The UK government (or was it Europe?) have decided to ban just about everything that can actually chemically remove rust, I suppose it’s for the common good – environmentally speaking that is – I just hope it wasn’t because some retard decided to drink it or feed it to their kids and pets. Who knows.

What I do know is I am slowly sinking into a rusty old stupor trying to restore my heap of orange junk I have sitting in the basement into a piece of vital equipment that resembles something like this:-

At first I was at it like a maniac, day and night sanding down springs and wires and supporting frames, but as the weeks have passed I’ve noticed almost everything I have tried to bring back to bare (what I assume is) stainless steel is still rather brown, but maybe I’m fighting a losing battle, perhaps it’s actually a Victorian antique made from cast iron? (Chris isn’t buying that guff) Whatever the hell it’s forged from I’ve tried every kind of drill and sanding attachment out there to restore a near, former glory desperate to prove to my GF I have saved over £1000 rather than wasted £100+.

Still I did manage to complete what I hope will be my last available digital print, I am already practising my spot colour transparency skills on Photoshop. They’re coming along nicely, and once I’ve de-rusted the dryer, bought a pressure washer, and all the consumables (plus a couple of cleaner screens) I am gunning to get on with my first limited edition silk screen print of Black Christ. In the meantime my ImageKind store will have a new edition in the next few days and I will make sure to write a feature on it at my homepage. It’s called ‘Outta Space’, it’s about the burgeoning global population (human that is) and I’ll explain my thinking further later on. For now here’s a sneak preview of what’s to come.

 Oh well back to the garden, the complaining neighbours and my world of rust

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