This series was produced in collaboration with Master Printer Sue Oehme. The work speaks of how our understanding of duration, memory, and time has changed as the pandemic seems to have generated a collective disassociation to time and space.
When Sue Oehme came to my studio to talk to me about collaborating with her, she was the first person to come to my studio in over a year due to the pandemic. I saw that the pandemic as a mirror of my life in the studio. I set up rules in my art practice and obey them to various degrees of obedience. Parallel to the way that we had responded to the different advice in the pandemic, it compares to how we relate to rules and can be seen as a reflection of ourselves.
The environment of Sue Oehme’s print studio really spoke to me. In the awe nature about us and the creative energy at Oehme Graphics, I felt a hopefulness and lightness, it was a shift in time and thoughts, and I wanted to bring that in the work.
Each monotype speaks to the inherent fragility, mutability, and immateriality of our present time. They demonstrate how our understanding of duration, memory, and time has changed as the pandemic seems to have generated a collective disassociation to time and space. We can try and evaluate our present time but how do we observe the now when we are living in it? That is the problem today, we are not able to visualize our present lives because we are busy experiencing them.
We have been trapped in our own bubbles, the last couple of years. Yet drastic changes are taking place, ones that will form a new reality we are yet to observe and comprehend. My intention for this series was bring lightness and movement into the work, reflective of the optimism of a Here After, a belief in our human capacity to go on.
