By and By
These linocut images, created during the spring of 2019, chronicle my experiences as a woman who loves women. A combination of portraits, passages from my diary, and personal symbols represent women I've loved and moments in my own journey of self-discovery.
This piece communicates the experience of remembering people important to my life who’ve drifted away. Though the memories represented here are years and miles apart, they are intrinsically linked through the emotionality of these memories. As prints on cloth, these images evoke the melancholy intimacy of moments linked through line drawings, symbols and phrases taken from journals and sketchbooks. These memories are explicitly seen from my perspective, and the process of pressing them into fabric is both tactile and personal.
These snippets of the final installation include excerpts from my diary in my own handwriting along with re-created symbols and drawings I created over the last decade to represent individuals who were important in my journey of self discovery.
The portrait printed within the doors depicts a crush of mine from summer camp in 2011, an individual who symbolizes a turning point in my life.
More Linocut
I love the graphic quality of linocut, and I continue to experiment with it still. Here are some studies done in linocut in preparation for the By and By installation.
