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Keith Sonnier’s lithograph, Changaloo, combines traditional hand printing and digital technology, the image is derived from a notebook-sized drawing made by the artist on blue-lined graph paper. The drawing was digitally scanned and then manipulated, before being greatly enlarged photographically and transferred to a lithographic plate. There the artist applied by hand, washes of transparent colors that contrast with pixilated color patches of computer-generated origin. Also visible are traces of the graph paper. The lithograph was printed in nine runs — one for each color — on light Japanese gampi paper.
According to the artist, Changaloo is the name of an ancient Indian elephant goddess. The image has something of the quality of a graffitti drawing in its looseness, almost like shorthand, and might have been inspired by one of the artist’s trips to India.
