Name/Title
Communal hearth; for better or for worseEntry/Object ID
2020-3-06Description
Woodblock and screenprint black inked woodblock print overlays a colored grid that graduated from green to red. This is print 1 of 12.
Artist Statement: "Fire, a simple combination of heat, oxygen, and fuel coming together to form a relationship that ignites into a constant state of change and impacting its surroundings through its transformative properties. As they synthesize, a contextual relationship is negotiated between the fire and fuel, bringing the flames into existence and simultaneously transforming both. A transformative relationship also occurs between fire and humans as fire users, manifested through evolution and societal development as well as a balancing act of control, withdrawal, vulnerability, security, and intimacy.
For us as humans fire is the genesis for the often-felt separation between what it is to be human and what it is to be natural, oddly different and oddly the same. Our fire, taking the form of light bulbs, heaters, and even engineered materials like glass and steel, has become so isolated into its parts that we no longer see it for what it is, a contextual relationship, dependent on its parts synthesizing together to give it existence and being, the same way that we, as humans, are a series of contextual relationships dependent on the ecological structure we are part of to exist and continue to maintain our being."Artwork Details
Medium
Paper, acrylic and oil based inksCollection
Near & Far CollectionMade/Created
Date made
2020Notes
Technique: Screenprint/Block PrintDimensions
Dimension Notes
Image Size: 18" x 14"