"Overtake" Risograph Print by Craig P Burrows

This limited edition risograph print is taken from a photographic series I call "Overtake." Each print is signed and debossed with its number from the series.

BACKSTORY:
I created the Overtake series while on assignment in Hawaii with the intent to record the collision of human infrastructure and a rampant flora, the most aggressive of which were introduced into an isolated tropical habitat resulting in their becoming invasive species.

During my time on the trip, these clashing signs of humanity repeatedly showed up whether as vines climbing on power lines, a full car engine discarded on the sidewalk, or a large fern growing on a weathered sign warning about video surveillance in the area.

The photos were captured in false-color infrared, a technique which records short wave infrared and visible light as primarily duotone images. I painstakingly converted two photographs from the series into formats reproducible with a risographic process using a conventional blue pigment for the visible and a fluorescent pigment for the infrared.

INFORMATION ABOUT RISOGRAPH PRINTS:
Risography is a printing process which primarily uses soy-based inks printed through a sacrificial paper mask to produce graphics. Because the process uses no plastic and the inks are naturally-derived, the risographic process is naturally more environmentally friendly. However, they are not intended as an archival reproduction format and as an art form, this transitory nature is part of the appeal of the medium.