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| Dimensions | Weight |
|---|---|
28.5H x 22W in 72.39H x 55.88W cm | 1.36 kg 3 lb |
This work is unframed and made with both collaged old book and printmaking ink.
Families are permutations of blood and chosen connections that are continually changing. People are born, die, get chosen (partnerships of all sorts), or are rejected. What is a truthful way to look at this complicated structure? My work explores how we can look at families for their beauty even if in light of what is difficult and unpleasant to talk about.
Part of our family story is a history you carry - an epigenetic transference from our ancestors that plays out unconsciously. Printmaking is a process that shows an impression of something. The actual surface is not there. Much of what I use to create the work is from something else that makes an impression on the paper through printing, much like how we inherit our traits and epigenetic dispositions. I can take a letter from my aunt, sew it to a piece of paper, and then print it. I then cut it up and sew parts to another print that gets printed again. Ghosts begin to form; “ghost” is a double entendre as the term ‘ghost’ for a printmaker is the residual ink from the initial print. The ghosts of families and the print talk; they speak of the process of building and cutting away; adding and subtracting and creating and dying.
Families are permutations of blood and chosen connections that are continually changing. People are born, die, get chosen (partnerships of all sorts), or are rejected. What is a truthful way to look at this complicated structure? My work explores how we can look at families for their beauty even if in light of what is difficult and unpleasant to talk about.
Part of our family story is a history you carry - an epigenetic transference from our ancestors that plays out unconsciously. Printmaking is a process that shows an impression of something. The actual surface is not there. Much of what I use to create the work is from something else that makes an impression on the paper through printing, much like how we inherit our traits and epigenetic dispositions. I can take a letter from my aunt, sew it to a piece of paper, and then print it. I then cut it up and sew parts to another print that gets printed again. Ghosts begin to form; “ghost” is a double entendre as the term ‘ghost’ for a printmaker is the residual ink from the initial print. The ghosts of families and the print talk; they speak of the process of building and cutting away; adding and subtracting and creating and dying.
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