Secondo - Hand pulled Serigraph (screenprint) from Greymouth artists Colby Smith and Stephen Tschopp from Safran House Limited edition - individually numbered and signed EDITION SIZE: 6 colour variants of ca.15 pieces each APROXIMATE PRINT AREA: 62 x 28cm PAPERS IN EDITION: 330gsm Kraftpak (brown recycled) and some 1600gsm Bookbinders Cover Board (grey, recycled) VARIANTS: 6 Green/Lime/Red • Snow/Grey/Hawthorne • Pink/Purple/SunGold • Yellow/Blue/Lagoon • Turquoise/Snow/Brown • Moss/Pink/Lime DEPICTION: A well dressed, breezy mid-strut second-generation immigrant gesturing “2” with the right hand and doing the sign of the horns with the left, making a defiant call to “Rock On”. They wear flip-flops and a pair of loose casual trousers and Gucci belt. A Polo-neck long sleeve sports top is worn underneath a loose fitting casual jacket. The top has a “2” and “secondo” embroidered on it (‘secondo’ from Italian ‘second’ originally used to denote children of Italian immigrant workers in other European countries. Now a term widely claimed by many children of immigrants throughout Europe) A vignette is near the bottom right corner with the print number and artists signature and the text ‘viva secondo • solidarity • pride’ plus ‘mahia a ringa • wortfaul • aotearoa’ and ‘Punk’ in Cantonese calligraphy. The background is printed with a coarse large particle gold glitter. This is part of an indeterminate series of characters representing a vision of friends, accomplices and comrades; An imagined crew that cares little about where you’re from, but much about where you’re going. It is a celebration and visualisation of non-anglophone immigrant communities and tangata tiriti in contemporary Aotearoa | New Zealand cultural spaces.
