Art has the power to prolong the life of fleeting things. It is salutary to think that one day not a trace will remain of our precious possessions, our clothes – even our everyday photographs, which, ironically, are themselves attempts to capture our ephemeral lives. Making prints directly from clothes, photographs and other objects is exciting because I feel I am reworking them into something new and alive.
Printmaking facilitates the creation of a series of impressions. In my practice I like to exploit this aspect of the medium because it feeds into the idea that I am making something new, living, evolving. In addition, as a printmaker, my focus constantly returns to the process involved in making prints and the textural possibilities of a finished piece of work. The results tend to be ambiguous, like an x-ray image – or like life itself.
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