Stychia

Ink on paper, 2017

The first paper memory I explored was an unintentional one: being a printmaker, I noticed the by-products of printing and etching: when the metal plate, covered in ink, goes under the press, it is usually laid on tissue paper. The tissue paper is printed with an impression of the negative side of the etching plate. This creates an unintentional print, a print that is the remnant of the action of printing. I collect these traces of action. They look like shadows of memory. For me they tell the story of the work that was created in the process, but for the objective viewer they are images telling an unknown story, open to new interpretations.