My prints focus on the body. Over time the bodies have gone from being slightly more straightforward depictions of human forms to become more fantastic, imagined and slightly grotesque creatures. They are occasionally an amalgamation of animal and human bodies. To create them, I use a variety of printmaking techniques, generally silkscreen or monotype, and use the matrix for the print like a stencil to repeat a single image multiple times on a single sheet of paper. Once I have filled the sheet with this lone repeated form, I stare at the pattern that has been formed until I find the body within it. From that point, I then paint on the print to draw this body out so that it will be instantly recognized as such. Then I cut the remaining background away and hang it on the wall.
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