Nodule-5_Forming

I ask myself how can I justify making in this time of climate change and my answer struggles back; paying attention to that which is overlooked and undervalued is an act of caring and making matters as an act of reverence, resilience and hope.  

Printmaking is an art form that respects the craft of collaborating with and honouring materials and their processes and the role of attention in creating responses to the environment. I love that about print and aim to carry that forward, experimenting with its proceses and substances to enact and evoke something of the forces of nature, to create prints to ressonate viscerally, telling of the fragile, vitality of everything. 

“Nodule_5 Forming” grew from wondering about flint forms I witnessed emerging from chalk in Kent. On the beach I made rubbings of nodules split on falling from the cliffs. In the studio I used the rubbings as a chine colle core surrounded by plates made by flowing carborundum.  The processes of flow and precipitation that played out in the formation of the trace fossil and the tactile connection of touch of the rubbing are brought together to enlarge the place in imagination for flint, a material often considered so common it is unworthy of a second look.