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Oscillation

Etching, aquatint, embossing, and thread on BFK Rives
2022

Oscillation consists of multiple prints which are meant to mimic the scale of pages in a notebook or travel sized sketchbook. The grid in which they are arranged becomes something of a dissection of this form of personal documention. The grid is made up of intaglio etchings, embossings, and blanks. The imagery comes from a combination of quick scribblings found in my sketchbook and objects I have collected. Some of the prints contain carefully considered details. Some of them are reduced to simplified shapes. The embossed pieces become a more simplified version of these prints. Sporadically, I have also placed blanks throughout the grid. There is an oscillation as the viewer navigates through the work, with information coming and going in waves, the more detailed fragments requiring focus and the blanks serving as a pause. It is my intention that as the viewer “reads” the grid, it takes on a rhythm – the pace of a walk, the up and down of a breath, an echo – something which is internally felt. 

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