The last two months have allowed me to work in a way that seemed new, but after it has settled in some more, it is very familiar to me. An unearthed approach that doesn’t hold too tightly, that moves with curiosity instead of anxiety and that welcomes new ideas that want to emerge.
I kept the process simple and etched a geometric design into a blank and then played with a variety of monoprint styles, focusing on the collision of texture between the paper and ink. Most of the time I forget to keep it simple. An idea sparks and I zoom too far out and grow distant from the original connection. Working on small batch series has allowed me to work on the exploration of volume and technique while also discovering parts of my art that particularly resonate here.
“There is a solitude like black mud!
Sitting in this darkness singing,
I can’t tell if this joy
Is from the body, or the soul, or a third place!”
-Robert Bly-