Deconstructing the Printing Process: : Image as Material, Time, and Space

Abstract

Over my years of practice in lithography, I have become more interested in printmaking as a process and an experience than in the result. My attention is focused on the repeated gestures and the qualities of the materials as they transform. It was by noticing a shift in the gesture-trace-imprint relationship in my process that I sought to deconstruct the process and transpose it to other mediums. It is this reflection on the imprint’s inability to capture movement, to grasp the time of the image that is being made, which leads me to transpose the paradigm of the print into my installations. Thus, I present the image in its different states, from the fluid material of the wash to the printed image. I deconstruct the printing process to show it as a series of gestures and transformations, each with an imaging potential.