Sorry Alex
This 2017 series explores the loss of a friendship, and the swirling disconnected feelings of solitude. Can we forget someone who was important to us? Can we forgive ourselves for leaving someone behind?
Technique
These prints are made from five distinct copper plates inked and printed in numerous instinctual configurations. The central image, the sliced hand, is a re-creation of a sketch from my diary, while the surrounding images were created with a variety of experimental techniques. Billowing smoke made in dry-point, faint nets in soft-ground, sliding droplets in coffee-lift, and a traditional marbled pillar pull emotional nuances from the hand.
Mixing techniques, colors, and approaches was integral in creating the dreamlike stream-of-consciousness this series records.
Emotionality
My experience informs all of my work, and as a powerfully emotional person I often seek to communicate feelings that have no name in language. Loss, disconnectedness, collapse, guilt, and a sickly sweet freedom permeated this time in my life and in these prints.
