Vignettes | The pieces in both Vignettes and Scrips series combine the considered recordings of the artist's thoughts with the tumultuous influence, invoked in the making process, of emotion and instinct. While they are all, in a sense, records of self, they also inevitably document the artist's surroundings, cultural roots, and reasoning journey. Each step, from painting to pulp manipulation to printmaking, incorporates new methods of relating to and translating personal experience and impetus into a visual language. Their making is grounded in the desire to give and share which, at its best, the act of communication embodies.
The process constraints group these Vignettes together. Their size is derived from the deckle box into which pulp is dispersed, while their pigmentation and translucency stem from the fluid nature of paper formation, where the residual pulp from one sheet becomes the foundation of the next. Carved in advance of this series, the artist's relief blocks preexist their application on paper as symbols created by Thaïs. While inseparable from their origin, the vibrant stamped block-prints are fully work-contextual.
3/2020 - 5/2020
Echo,
2020
24" x 34"
Natural abaca, pigmented cotton and fine cotton, linoleum block printing
Hello,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented abaca, cotton, linoleum block printing
Momentum,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented and natural abaca, pigmented fine cotton, linoleum block printing
Repose,
2020
24" x 34"
Abaca, pigmented cotton, linoleum block printing
Click,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented abaca and cotton
Carried the World II,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented and natural abaca
Carried the World I,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented abaca and cotton
Out,
2020
24 x 34"
Pigmented abaca
Around and Around,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented abaca and fine cotton, linoleum block printing
Match,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented Abaca and fine cotton, linoleum block printing
Burble,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented abaca and cotton, linoleum block printing
Hush,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented abaca and cotton, linoleum block printing
Rustle,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented abaca, cotton and fine cotton, linoleum block printing
Fizz,
2020
24 x 34"
Pigmented abaca and cotton, linoleum block printing
Festive,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented abaca and cotton, pigmented fine cotton, linoleum block printing
Small Wall,
2020
24" x 34"
Pigmented abaca and cotton, pigmented fine cotton