Twenty-four photopolymer intaglio prints and five handwritten pages. Prints and handwritten pages on Hahnemühle Copperplate Paper, Bright White, 300 gsm. 9 X 6-inch plates, 19 X 15-inch sheets. Prints are in editions of two, with one artist's proof. Printed and written by the artist.
Handwritten pages consist of 24 texts corresponding to the objects depicted. Texts were written, edited and then written formally by hand as a final "printing," determining the order for both prints and texts. Legible versions of the essays are available on request.
Handwritten pages consist of 24 texts corresponding to the objects depicted. Texts were written, edited and then written formally by hand as a final "printing," determining the order for both prints and texts. Legible versions of the essays are available on request.
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This series depicts objects that originally belonged to my parents. Each one stands for a facet of their lives – making music, cooking – as well as a zone in our apartment: a bookshelf, a bathroom. I transform the objects both materially and symbolically, removing them from their contexts, photographing them, and then making prints. I invite re-seeing as they move from being regularly used things to staged things, from familiar to estranged.
The process was itself a performance. I chose them from among my possessions, handled them, photographed them, and then made photopolymer intaglio prints (a difficult process I learned in order to make this series). In making, I imagined and retraced my parents' gestures: habitual, intimate. This further imbues the prints with meaning.
With the prints are 24 corresponding essays scrawled on the same paper stock. Where the images offer silence and surface, my writing overflows with details. Each essay disrupts, exposing traumatic events bound to that object, complicating the quiet order of the images. Together, image and text form a fragmented archive.
The project investigates authorship, memory, and how we belong to what we inherit.
​​​​​​​Read the texts or watch me read one of them. Below, the cover story about this series in Else Journal: International Art, Literature, Theory and Creative Media (Berlin: Transart Institute, 2016).
