Untitled (the void)

UNTITLED (THE VOID)

Exhibition History

Redux Showcase, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC (2016)
prelude, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (2016)
NEXT, Print Matters, Houston, Texas (2017)
The Contemporary Print, PrintAustin, Austin, Texas (third place award) (2018)

I was originally inspired by a quote from one of Italo Calvino's short stories: "To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that means."

This piece developed into a personal interpretation of living with depression. Utilizing one copper plate, I aquatinted and altered the plate a series of 25 times, printing the progression along the way to create a single image. With each section representing a single year, the entire piece comes to represent my state at the age of 25. Forever falling and going deeper into the void.

Over the course of this project, the piece evolved into much more than the original concept. Dedicating six months of labor, I became so engrossed in the process of transforming this plate into something bigger. At the end of the day, the process became as important as the final image.