Michael Morgulis

Artist’s Statement Describing Process & Technique

What drives my work most is the medium and process in which I am working at the time.
As a graphic designer and print maker, I am always interested in what process will work best to accomplish the task at hand. I am best known for my silkscreen prints and for the Buffalo Series of posters, prints and t-shirts I created and produced over the years for my design business, New Buffalo Graphics. Lately, I have been teaching myself aspects of the digital print process and playing with new concepts and ideas for print making. For example, the prints I am currently working on and exhibiting, Homegrown / Intimate Food Portraits, look like photographs, but are not really photographs, at least the images were not captured in the traditional way by using a camera. These images are actually direct scans of food objects, done on my desktop scanner, that are then developed and worked on in my digital darkroom. I then print the images in several sizes on different kinds of fine art paper. When they are displayed, many people, especially photographers ask what kind of camera or lens I use. When I tell them I don’t use a camera they go back for second and third looks just to try and figure out how it’s done. Of course, all the traditional rules of making art and prints still apply