Winged Fire

Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints. My whole life has been driven by art in one way or another, sometimes in a subtle way, others in a more direct way. From a young age I realised that academic skills were not really my thing, always being drawn towards art rather than everything else teachers tried to throw at me. Growing up I travelled alot, either through rollerblading with friends or just travelling to other countries. Graffiti always stood out to me everywhere I went, the tracksides, the rooftops, it was everywhere. I did try to paint for a while, not to much success. My handstyle was crap and my can control was pathetic. At a certain age you become involved in everything else around you, and hobbies suffer, this was the case for me, so for years I left art alone. In 2004 I went to Australia and I picked up a book called 'Stencil Graffiti Capital Melbourne' and without sounding too cliche, it changed everything for me. The energy the scene had at that time was insane, people were out all night painting everywhere they could. I knew I had to get in on it. I'd done stencils before so I knew the basics but the level