Printmaking

These works from graduate school (2005-2007) were inspired by time, memory, presence & absence. I titled this series Records & States. The print processes afforded me a way to conceptualize the passage of time via markmaking systems and repetition. Records are a body of information based on memory, expanses of time counted in weeks and days. Lengths of time were broken down into measurable amounts, documented through mechanical methods including typewriters and numerical stamps. These monotypes represent the breakdown of time and memory, lending physical form to the intangible. The accompanying body of work, States, are anthropomorphic domestic objects, familiar yet menacing. This imagery symbolizes the fading of memories and struggle to hold onto something that no longer exists.

Ghost Town, 2007. Woodcut, 2' 10" x 4' 8"

Breathing Underwater (90 Days), 2006. Type, canary & pattern paper, wax, surgical pins & plastic bags filled with water. 24" x 36"

Walking with a Ghost, 2007. Woodcut, 2' 10" x 4' 8"

Detail, Breathing Underwater (90 Days). 2006.

Far Away Places, 2007. Woodcut, 4' 8" x 2' 8"

Release. 2007. Monotype on Mulberry paper with ballpoint pen ink. 5' x 2' 8"

Notes from an Ordinary Day, 2009. Type on monotype with found paper, thread & pins, mounted in shadowbox. 5" x 7"

Breathing. 2007. Typewriter (typed until ink ran dry) on Mulberry paper with pins, mounted in pine box. 5' 1"

Nothing Keeps (730 Days), 2007. Automatic numbering stamp on mulberry paper, thread, mounted with pins in pine box. 5' x 1' 7"

Breaking Down & Packing Up, 2006. woodcut. 2' 5" x 3' 3"

Detail, Breathing.

Everything & Nothing. 2007. Numerical stamp on Mulberry with pins in pine box. Each paper strip measures 5' 1"

Dirt, 2005. Monotype, engraving & gesso. 40" x 30"

Flood, 2005. Monotype, engraving and chine colle. 30" x 40"

Two Weeks, 2008. Woodcut, stamp, plastic bags filled with white body paint, thread and white nails in pine box, 2' x 4'

Flood II, 2005. Monotype, engraving and chine colle. 30" x 40"

Detail, Two Weeks.