Collagraphs by Leni Fried

his collagraph was inspired by two different trips to Culebra, a small island off of Puerto Rico. This was where the image of a woman in a red dress leaning against a dark doorway during the quiet midday hours of siesta became etched in my consciousness. Back in Massachusetts I tried to make the print. But each time I looked out my studio window at the bare trees and moody skies of a New England winter my mind wandered, but the image remained. I finally returned to Culebra three months later to get 'recharged'. It was after this second trip I was able to finish this print.

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