apologues
These monoprints are my investigations into the narrative. I do not have predetermined narrative or intention of a defined narrative in the design/making of the linoleum blocks, but rather I am looking for the narrative derived in observing the perceived relationships and interactions between multiple images. Many factors contribute to the various interpretations that come to me, this series investigates selection and sequence to consider how this affects interpretation.
I have been making a series of linoleum blocks, 9” x 12” in either a horizontal or vertical format. The horizontal formatted prints are paired forming a diptych, the 3 vertical making a triptych. Each print has it's unique sequencing of the selected blocks, each a monoprint, but but each block is printed multiple times, all in different context by combining with other blocks
I made a strong effort to deny a protagonist to allow many interpretations of a narrative, as the defining of a protagonist restricts possible interpretations. I also attempt to expand the possibilities of different narratives by subverting spatial relationships, suspending time referents by outside of night and day, and referencing ritual through form and position to convey a regularity of circumstance- nothing seems to be going on out of the ordinary here, within this world.
Or perhaps. You are the viewer now, I am not interpreting for you.