Language Acquisition: Fissures / Pattern-Speak (2016 – 2017)
“Pattern-Speak #1”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage, thread; 17″ x 16″; 2017
“Pattern-Speak #1” (detail 1); Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage, thread; 17″ x 16″; 2017
“Pattern-Speak #2”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage, thread; 15″ x 11″; 2017
“Pattern-Speak #2” (detail 1); Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage, thread; 15″ x 11″; 2017
“Pattern-Speak #3”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage, thread; 20″ x 20″; 2018
“Pattern-Speak #3 (detail 1)”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage, thread; 20″ x 20″; 2018
“Pattern-Speak #4”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage, thread; 13″ x 7″; 2018
“Pattern-Speak #4” (detail 1); Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage, thread; 13″ x 7″; 2018
“Pattern-Speak #5″; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage, thread; 6″ x 6″; 2018
“Pattern-Speak #7″; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage, thread; 18″ x 16″; 2018
“Pattern-Speak #7″ (detail 1); Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage, thread; 18″ x 16″; 2018
“Fissure #1”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage on wood panel; 12″ x 12″ x 2.5″; 2016
“Fissure #2”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage on wood panel; 12″ x 12″ x 2.5″; 2016
“Fissure #2”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage on wood panel; 12″ x 12″ x 2.5″; 2016
“Fissure #3”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage on wood panel; 12″ x 12″ x 2.5″; 2017
“Fissure #3”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage on wood panel; 12″ x 12″ x 2.5″; 2017
“Fissure #4”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage on wood panel; 12″ x 12″ x 2.5″; 2017
“Fissure #4”; Silver gelatin photographic chemigram collage on wood panel; 12″ x 12″ x 2.5″; 2017
“Language Acquisition” started as an exploration of gesture and character-like forms, made spontaneously by drawing through resists on the photographic paper. For various reasons, only a small portion of those works possess the qualities that I feel are successful in becoming singular gestural works. “Fissures” and “Pattern-Speak” are the result of the numerous “failed” attempts at gesture, repurposed into new works that are purely formal in approach. In some I am comparing one mark to another made at a different time, and trying to recreate my sense of movement across the paper into a new artwork. Other pieces are inspired by quilt patterns and are exploring silver gelatin paper’s conceptual relationship to sewing machines and its physical relationship to thread.