Variations: Anatomy of a Process is a decades long series of photographic monoprints exploring how my process and subject matter manifests in various incarnations through alchemical darkroom methods. It is not uncommon for me to return to a set of negatives and have another go at printing.
“and nothing white (lost) is so white as the memory of whiteness”
-William Carlos Williams
When I was just a teenager, I read this line from his poem, Descent, and it has stuck with me through all these years. He wrote this poem as an older man, and, to me, it really articulates the way memories transform as time passes. I don’t remember events as vividly as I remember feelings and emotions.
This verse from his poem recently came barreling through my unconscious to create this newest series of monoprints.
-William Carlos Williams
When I was just a teenager, I read this line from his poem, Descent, and it has stuck with me through all these years. He wrote this poem as an older man, and, to me, it really articulates the way memories transform as time passes. I don’t remember events as vividly as I remember feelings and emotions.
This verse from his poem recently came barreling through my unconscious to create this newest series of monoprints.
Every artist at some point confronts the idea of masks. These monoprints made as photograms come from cheap halloween masks. ‘Laments’ in the sense of our persistent desecration of the animal kingdom.
Casting Deep Shade, a collaboration with the renowned poet CD Wright is now available from Copper Canyon Press and through Amazon. It is a sumptuous and elaborate tribute of her extraordinary last book before her untimely passing. In addition, there is a short biographical film by David H Wells from a gallery talk I gave on the exhibition at Brown University.
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