2022

WATERLESS LITHOGRAPHY

Curious collections from home

These prints have 4 layers, a mono-print background, followed by 3 lithography layers. The seashells are printed with the chine colleé Method.

The text is transferred on.

EXCERPT From my essay The Art of Collecting:

My collections of prints are all based on certain things that, to me, inexplicably evoke a strong feeling of home. The story told is not only of colours, textures, and homeliness, but also of specific people and their presence. The large shell print tells a story of my father’s personality: a curious collector, throughout life, fascinated by nature's shapes, patterns and glistening colours. As clearly as I can see him now when looking at the shells I can also imagine him then. The shells tell me the story of a younger him, infatuated by nature's patterns. It manages to make me incredibly nostalgic for a time I was never even there for -  that to me is the beauty of collections. It connects the audience with these memoirs of a life lived before us, historically, archaeologically, and through memories based on the subjective context we see them in. Susan Hiller noted

“ the interesting thing is that there are always at least two possible stories: one is the story that the narrator, in this case the artist thinks she’s telling - the story-teller's story - and the other is the story that the listener is understanding, or hearing or imagining on the basis of the same objects”