Fugues (5)
2023
Multi-Color screenprint monotypes
15”x18”
2023
Multi-Color screenprint monotypes
15”x18”
This body of work begins with
thinking of landscape as a process not a thing. I have been making prints by
translating the musical concept of polyphony) into visual terms. The multiple
voices of polyphony challenge the western obsession with the individual —
especially as it’s enforced by the single authoritative lens of the camera.
Layering and repetition are used to create disorienting rhythms to shake up the
logical thinking patterns of the viewer. At once spiritual and political, these
images of the American West pivot away from the historical use of landscape
photography in the colonization process. They ask us to go back to the origins
of the word respect, which means, “to look again,” and to
make room for another kind of relationship with the landscape and the more than
human world.
