Can an unpredictable practice produce deliberate work? How can abstraction yield specificity? These are the questions that have arisen from my week of experimenting with screen printing. Over multiple rounds of prints, I found that control of the work is as much a function of the placement of ink as it is of the gestural motion of pushing ink through a mesh. As such, unpredictability becomes a methodology in and of itself; these are works that cannot be thoroughly planned, but must still be anchored in an intent to possess a precision and clarity that allows them to resonate.
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