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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A month or so ago I made this sketch which had me feeling like Wow this is really something, man this is one of the all timers.. And yesterday I start trying to transfer it onto a copper plate, and the hands are literally like:

definitely not a hand, whatever it is.
Like that guy doesn't even have an arm, what am I gonna do with this!

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is a really really funny thing to put in a woodblock that you have total compositional control over. That's fantastic. well done Toshikata

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The 9th strange stone I found. this one's preeetty strange..

printmaking experiment.
photographic decalcomania.
A photograph crushed in a printing press.
The result is a very weird stone-like apparition, quite craggy and rocky on top, but textured with impossible black rivulets and wrinkles.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

the 74th strange stone, that I found in that place

printmaking experiment.
decalcomania.
a photograph printed on the wrong material, on plastic, then forced through a printing press.
The result is an explosion of patterns and colours.
It's part of my collection of stone-looking things, though this one is very far gone. very deteriorated.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The 41st stone I found in that place.

This one's different again.
A white and brown stone-shaped thing, riddled with strange dark tributaries, lies in a muddy brown and blue field.
The whole gravity and physics of the scene is questionable: Unreal.
Experimental printmaking. Photographic decalcomania.
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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The 6th and 7th strange rocks I found in that place

colourful, very texturally detailed artwork which almost depicts a scene of two white rocks in a brown-geeen soup of slime.
The secret truth is, this image was generated by crushing a photograph in a printing press. it's weird printmaking

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The 53rd strange stone I found in that place. #art #printmaking

An anomaly for this early on in the "strange stones" series.
A very weird and unreal image.
What might have been a smooth white stone is being dissolved and invaded by wet rainbow growths.
This was an image generated physically by an experimental photographic printmaking process, akin to decalcomania. shout-out Jungkook.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The 2nd strange stone I found

Large, white, irregular stone, weirdly smooth, lying in a wet and spongy bed of moss or algae, or something green and slimy and growing.
Unreal.
Experimental photographic printmaking.
Figurative decalcomania.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

the 32nd strange stone I found there.

$This one's particularly weird. An unreal stone-like entity exists in an earthy field of mud-like and moss-like stuff. That's as certain as things get around here. Unlike the other stones so far in this series, this one's surface is not smooth and white, but instead is a twisted, fractal, green root-like texture. It all started as #photography, but then I did some #printmaking to it. Or, at least, I used a printing press to explode the original photo anyway.$

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The 18th strange rock I found.

A large, wide, lumpy stone sits lodged in a shallow bed of unusually dark green moss-like goop.
This composition was generated semi-randomly in a printmaking experiment in which a liquidated photograph was compressed in a printing press, obliterating the original image.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The 21st strange stone I found.

Large, wide, smooth white stone, surrounded by green and brown goop.
'least that's what it looks like; the reality of the scene is kinda vague, as always.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The 36th strange stone I found in that place.

Extra-weird shaped white stone, lying in a familiar field of green something.
This one is Miriam's favourite.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The 15th strange stone I found there.

One of my series of strange stones.
this one's almost egg-shaped, and lying in a particularly sloppy bed of abstract green gloop.
Decalcomania; Epson printer ink compressed onto yupo paper.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This is the 5th strange stone I found.

A small, chunky stone, surrounded by green and orange mossy forms.
The medium is decalcomania, printed in an Albion printing press.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This is the 14th strange stone I found in that place.

An unusual image. New-printmaking. Inkjet transfer.
In the image, green, algae-like forms surround a smooth white "stone" with a notch in the top end, almost like a natural hand-hold.

Technically the image is photographic, like a polaroid emulsion transfer, but the original photo (the tuffty weeds I posted earlier) was crushed in an Albion moveable type printing press against a sheet of Yupo paper to "generate" this new composition.
Don't tell anyone though, I'm pretending they're stones I found.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

There, specifically amongst these tufty weeds, I began to uncover the first of my interesting stones. This photography dump has all just been context for the collection of interesting "stones" I am about to start posting. Get ready for this account to become all about weird stones for a while.

Colour photograph of weeds in a ditch. The ground around the ditch is broken and strange. Dandelion flowers grow. This is a very very important photograph for me.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

But back in April of that year, when I drove out to see it, Illuma was still kept seporate from Reid Highway by a weird dead-zone: A rocky, grassy, weed-filled void, dry and parched at one end, but hydrated by a lively drain closer to the homes. Here are some photos I took there.

A black and white photo of a crow in a scraggly tree planted on the edge of Reid Highway.

Colour landscape photograph of one of the dry bits of the void/field that this chain of posts is all about..

Another colour landscape photograph of one of the dry bits of the void/field that this chain of posts is all about..

Colour photograph of the charismatic, tuffty weeds that grow along the drainage ditch that runs through the field. In the background houses can be seen on the other side of a temporary fence, and a Lagoon Blue Toyota Aurion is parked where the street ends and becomes field.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Towards the end of 2023 it unexpected inflated, growing dozens of new homes and coming to rest almost against the edge of the highway like it was resting by a river.

A series of 4 colour photographs taken from the edge of a weedy, sandy, messy field, with views of the houses that surround it.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Up above Perth's North-Eastern suburbs, along Reid Highway, there's a new-ish housing development called Iluma.

Colour photograph of a big billboard poking over the grey perimeter wall of a housing development. the sky is light blue and full of beautiful clouds.
It's #photography from #Perth australia.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Friday 25 November 2022, 10:58AM, the valley of the giants.

A photograph of some trees and a metal handrail shot through a thick, olive-green painted concrete window.
The shot was taken The Valley of The Giants in Denmark Western Australia.
It's #photography, baby!

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

I played around with the idea of breaking the image apart with a solid black key-plate, but ultimately abandoned this one. There's more potential there though. One day I will go back and play more.

The same photo, but with a black pattern overlaid, which breaks it.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

To Clayton Street, Thursday, 16th March 2023 12:08:52 AM #photography #perth

A photograph of two ficus trees in the carpark behind Spotlight in Midland WA, taken eight minutes after midnight.
The trees are lit by a streetlight.
A sign reading "To Clayton Street" is partially obscured by foliage.

My Canon 6D recorded the photo as having been taken on Thursday, but of course I set out on this excursion on Wednesday night, so this still feels like a Wednesday photo to me.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Unused something, 2023. Pressed wet ink on 100gsm litho paper. #printmaking

Printer ink decalcomania,
A corrally, nobbly, rocky protrusion.
I think I remember showing this to my sister and she didn't like it. Looking back, I kinda like it though. I should go back to it and play more.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

A bunch of gloop. What was a pattern of fractures and flat facets becomes a rolling field of pinnacles thanks to gravity pulling on darker colours more than on thin, pale ones.

Ink-jet decalcomania.
The image looks kinda like a bumoy cave wall or something.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Installation of a work on paper from last year called Silt Cliffs. #printmaking #art

An ink transfer print (decalcomania) on 6 tall 100gsm litho-paper panels, pinned to the wall in a vitrine...

The print shows a dark, sandy, green & white mass. A submarine lump.
An illuminated green exit sign can be seen reflecting distractingly in the vitrine glass.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

I'm gonna try to see if I can be more active as someone who shares his work. Here's a print of mine called New-years Lifeform.

A cross section of a worm or fungus, or tree? It's either gigantic or tiny, and it's rooted into a gross hillside like a tooth in a jaw.
The night sky is black, and filled with stars or dirt.

The medium is 'new-printmaking', which means I made this by compressing ink. I did it in a printing press though so its legit ✌️

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

Been playing around with some lino for fun (hashtag printmaking)

The original block, plus prints on cartridge and brown paper..

A print on cartridge.
Messy lines are visible in the negative spaces, as I didn't clean the block properly after recarving and reprinting..

Pretty clean print on Gyokuryu rice paper

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Kid's been home from school for a while so I've been making my own spelling homework for him

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

012 again (because its my fav), 013, 014 and finally 015. Thank you for your time and attention. uuuuh, Do you have a favorite? Sound-off in the comments! 👉😎👉

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

005, 006, 007 & 008 oh hey! I forgot to stick a bunch of tags all over this. uuuuuh,,, #art #photography #printmaking #perth

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

The process is decalcomania, in which near-microscopic details of an obliterated photo are enlarged, printed on to a non-porous substrate and then transferred to litho-paper through an intaglio printing press. It's been so much fun to figure out. Here's 001, 002 & 003

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Wanted to share a little printmaking installation I finished in the middle of the year, called TV Static Filling Up My Tongue; Holes Glimpsed Briefly While In The Process Of Passing Out

A constellation-hang of colourful, block-mounted prints in a dark hallway.

The same constellation-hang of prints, this time numbered 001-015

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

I went through a short phase of trying to print copper intaglio plates using my car as a press. I swear if I had treadless tires it would be perfect... There's a guy on youtube who gets great intaglio prints with a pasta press. Could work well with your drypoint!

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

I've got a lot of these funny little things lying around which were made for an exhibition but just didn't fit in with the other works, so guess what everyone in my family is getting for christmas this year.. A bunch of goop. #art #printmaking

What is this? A smooth formation of rocks? A cavern wall? A field of pinnacles seen from a hilltop maybe.

It's a salmon-pink and thalo-green ink-jet transfer made by squashing photos in a printing press; my own special decalcomania process.
This photo shows it in my hand, blockmounted and with a fresh coat of artflow resin.
Bridie the cat enters the room in the background.

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Bluesky was a missed opportunity for us to return to a star based economy instead of just another heart based economy

The old twitter like button from when it was stars and not hearts

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Daniel K @danielgk.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

wonderful material, still wet from its genesis

Close up shots of the running ink I use in my photographic transfer process.

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