David Driskell:

I started with the traditional method. But as Ruth says to me, it really was like an arm of my painting and the early ones. I didn’t have a master print and no one printed for me. So I would do the Japanese method of spooning it, you know, uh, working with Japanese paper and what have you. And, and so I’d have a very limited edition of how those prints were done. Uh, but I never really considered myself a printmaker until perhaps, um, close to the year, 2000 when Adrian Charles, mm-hmm <affirmative>, and, um, Dr. Steel who at that time was director of the Driskell Center, said we we’d really like to do a print show. And I thought, well, I don’t have enough, but we started collecting them and collecting them and collecting them. And then they added up, mm-hmm <affirmative>, to a rather large, uh, uh, repository.