Quebec printmaker Sonia Landry, working as La Hache, creates a limited edition print inspired by wave patterns on the sand of the Côte-Nord coast, layering sheet music beneath fluid curves printed in a gradient from phthalo blue to fluorescent lime green.
It was a walk along a beach on Quebec’s Côte-Nord that started it. Sonia Landry looked at the patterns the waves were drawing in the sand and thought they looked like long hair. The image stayed with her. When a large collection of old sheet music arrived as a gift, the connection clicked.
“I wanted the sheet music to come alive,” she says, “and I felt like I was drawing the music with these waves.”
Vague 2 is the result: a reduction linocut that places fluid wave-like forms over the sheet music, working carefully with positive and negative space so that the notation shows through the drawing rather than being obscured by it. The shapes were developed to create movement with curves, giving the composition fluidity and lightness. The gradient, running from phthalo blue to fluorescent lime green, was chosen to intensify the wave effect, the colours shifting across the surface the way water shifts in changing light.
The print is a limited edition of nine, each one carrying the particular character of the hand-pulled impression. Vague 2 is available in La Hache’s online shop.
Sonia Landry is a cabinetmaker and graphic designer by training who combined her two skills to become a printmaker under the name La Hache. Her practice is shaped by travel and a persistent desire to seek out mountains, nature and less-travelled paths.
Website: behance.net/LaHache Instagram: @lahache_eg
Vague 2. Reduction linocut, phthalo blue to fluorescent lime green gradient. Limited edition of 9.
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