Birkenhainer Landstraße (Aphorism)
Screenprint with torn and pasted screenprints and
lithograph on
French Poptone.
All collé elements hand printed by artist in limited editions.
8" x 10" print / 11" x 15" framed
2016
$450
Alte Salzstraße (Aphorism)
Screenprint with torn and pasted screenprints and
lithograph on French Poptone.
All collé elements hand printed by artist in limited editions.
8" x 10" print / 11" x 15" framed
2016
$450
I describe my work as a series of scenes that chart a nameless place, a land once known to our ancestors but now obscured by our faith in materialism. Part realm of Platonic Forms, part Midwestern landscape at dusk, these images arise from experiences that refuse simple explanation: déjà vu, ghosts, phantom lights, visions of heaven, premonitions of hell.
I produce editions like any printmaker. But rather than persist as the final product, these impressions form the raw materials that animate my hybrid practice. From the illusion of painterly brush strokes to the half-tone spaces of photographic imagery, I create every element fixed to the surface of my work utilizing a traditional process.
By combining screen-printing, lithography and Xerox transfer, my efforts embrace the rapid shifts, curious juxtapositions and narrative instability of a social-media stream. I can’t -nor do I wish to- know how an individual work will resolve itself, but I proceed blindly (because art resists as often as it reveals) in the ardent belief that what will emerge is some new and heretofore unseen aspect of a distant shore.