Each year, Kasini House commissions a limited edition print from a Burlington artist to commemorate First Friday Art Walk. The image of the print is used as the poster for the event that year. An edition of thirty original prints is available for purchase.

The 2006 print was an etching made by Ira Cummings. The print “suggests a general dynamism through its composition and gesture. It’s an energy that I feel in this town, during First Friday Art Walk, during the South End Art Hop, during JazzFest. The two forms suggest coming together or the old breaking from the new,” wrote Cummings.

“An image is only complete when all of its parts rely on each other in such a way that they could not exist on their own.” A printer who primarily creates abstract images, Ira Cummings’s milieu is the tension between order and chaos. He takes a meditative approach to creating work and strives for balance among the elements in a piece. The print shows two elongated forms rendered in a dark sepia on a background of grassy green.

Details: 10”x15.5” on 15”x22” paper | etching and aquatint | 2006 | edition of 30, signed and numbered by artist