Gathering

Gathering I - IV
Woodchips, Laser Cut Plexi-Glass & MDF Board, Screenprint
2017

An installation investigating my fascination with how we as people appear alike when grouped together, but when looked at individually, our unique qualities emerge and come to light.

The process of printmaking parallels these ideas and concepts. Multiples can be created from single matrices, but with each impression there are subtle differences in how a surface is hand-inked, pressed, and transferred.

In Gathering, I repurpose woodchips that would typically be discarded as the residue from carving wood. These woodchips are inked through pressure transfer, scanned, and laser-cut into wood panels and also used as imagery for screen printing. The laser-cut fragments and silk- screens serve as moveable and repeatable matrices that can transfer ink to paper, accumulating marks and forms that both cluster and dissipate.

When inking these pieces, each print presents its own unique attributes, but when the imagery starts to amass on the page, similar qualities of the chips are apparent.