Photography inspires my art and acts as a vital element in my etchings. The images I employ originate from my own photographs, as well as from the images I find from my research into the digital archives of universities, historical societies, libraries, and museums. Upon locating a documented scene I wish to etch, my first step involves the execution of two to five original drawings of the photograph.

My collaboration between photography and printmaking allows me the independence to integrate my personal interpretations into the scene. Moreover, I create bridges between the physical and metaphysical visual realities in the same way that a camera intersects with human creativity . . . the nexus between the mechanical and the cerebral art tools.

Art unveils everything that we mask behind our belief systems conversely, I strive in my creations to clarify those phenomena we overlook as a result of our egocentric assumptions. Ironically enough, I blame this failure to notice things, a process I label, the phenomenology of connectedness, on today’s very infatuation with and addiction to the new communicational technologies of social media. My artworks therefore become like windows through which to examine the mysteries of “everyday consciousness”. In fact, my use of multiple etching plates placed on the printing press bed to create a one printed image makes my multiple plate etchings look like a windowpane separated by its architectural divisions.

Areas that inspire me include architecture, history, religion, folklore, ancient culture, mysticism, archaeology, the cinema, and mythology. In my etchings, I use the techniques of intaglio, aquatint, Chine collé, and drypoint. My media includes oil base etching inks Charbonnel brand from Paris, natural etching papers, and mulberry bark paper infused with kozo threads.


DIFALCO IS NOW EXHIBITING IN THREE JURIED GROUP SHOWS

“8th CATHHOLIC ARTS BIENNIAL” Original Intaglio Aquatint Etching with Mulberry Bark Paper Chine Colle Overlay Verostko Center for the Arts, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania September 6 – October 29, 2021.

OUTSIDE THE LINES COMICS ILLUSTRATIONS Five hand-painted hand-printed etchings by Di Falco. Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Pennsylvania Sept 7-Oct 30, 2021.

ART ABILITY Three hand printed etchings by Di Falco The Galleries at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, Malvern, Pennsylvania Sept 6 – Oct 29, 2021.


DI FALCO IS A MEMBER IN THE FOLLOWING ART GROUPS

1. Artist Member, INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER OF NEW YORK, NYC, NY

2. Artist Member, ECVA, Episcopal Church and the Visual Arts, NYC, NY

3. Artist Member, The Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4. Member, THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS, NYC, NY

5. Member, THE INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER OF NEW YORK...