Lagana works in linoleum block for the tactile feel of ink on fine paper, the robust hand cut lines and shapes. She pulls her own prints in small editions of 3 - 50, and after playing with color -- no two color prints are alike. Her paper is Japanese mulberry (rice paper) unless other wise noted, each numbered, dated, and signed in pencil by Lagana, and usually followed with imp., (for 'impressit' . . . the artist printed it.)
In college Lagana worked in b&w, but after moving to Thailand, the intensity & granduer of the Thai countryside wanted color. . . She began cutting & printing large, bright hued fantasies & scenes of Thailand. In 1971 Lagana married a Thai & they spent time with his large family alongside a farming canal beyond both roads & electricity. Friends & family all served as subjects for the recording of a lifestyle that was
disappearing even as it was recorded by photograph or print.
