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I found my way to printmaking via the world of textiles. Now, the combination of fiber and printmaking has become the center of my practice. I enjoy the tactile pleasure of working with cloth by constructing/deconstructing the textiles that I use as my printing matrix. The organic, evocative imagery created by the grid of warp and weft is a rich source of inspiration - abstract, yet suggestive at times of the natural world. I find the interactions that occur between fiber, paper and ink both nuanced and beautiful.
I focus on the active manipulation of the paper in my printmaking, from improvisational wrinkling and crumpling to more deliberate textile-related techniques like pleating, tying, folding and, for this exhibition, quilting. These techniques form the basis of a significant theme in my work, texture.
Depicting a woven textile with frayed edges, Subtext 1 makes use of the chine colle method to echo the unraveling textile edges with the printed paper. The tissue paper that has been layered over the base paper during printing peels back in areas, revealing the printed underlayer and exposing the print’s substrate.
Subtext 1 is also a kind of narrative document hinting at words once said or perhaps left unsaid. The narrative is present but obscured. The stitched lines, like asemic writing, offer meaning by way of aesthetic intuition, and not by verbal expression. Through this ambiguity, I hope to make work that impacts viewers on a visceral level.Label Type
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Tissue paper, washi paper, etching ink, thread
Chine colle, monotype, machine & hand stitching