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The body's space

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These prints primarily consider the body as a physical space, and in relation to other things. 

Though abstract in nature the plates upon which they are made frequently reference the body being the size of my head or my arm for example. 

 

Canna be at both ends.

This is a series of 10 monoprints and made after a typical evening at home, my mind is racing through lists of what needs to be done, while I am trying to cook, have conversations  with the kids, dashing up and down the stairs with the clean washing in order to clear the kitchen table so we can eat. I recall that my Grandmother used to say to her: that ‘You canna be at both ends at once’, meaning that it was impossible to do everything. As such

These prints are about repetition, their fragility indicates the feeling of being spread too thinly. A shade of pink denotes the body- and this is certainly a body thing as it is my inability to be in two places at once, while the plate from which it is made similar in size to my hand and fore-arm.

 

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Thickness of a thought

The title  ‘the thickness of a thought’ came from a line in Terry Pratchett’s “Pyramids” where he used it to describe something so thin it was almost invisible and seemed a good way of also describing the fleetingness of thought. As with many of my other ‘body’ prints I have used plates which reference the size of my own body, and here the plates used are the size of my head.

They are prints of inkblots like those used in the ‘Rorschach Ink Blot test’. As the plates themselves are made from a print I wanted them to play mind games. It was also pleasing that the prints they made looked so much like brain scans.

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Absent but ever present

This series of monoprints reference to the physical characteristics of a body. Created from threads which had been tied around my fingers and then randomly placed on the plate they reference the ties of the family which are always there even when they are not.

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