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Lithography
Inspired by Jasper John’s lithograph ‘Skin With O’Hara Poem’, where he incorporated text within an impression of his face and hands, I started working with Goethe’s poem ‘Erlkönig’ that I feel deeply connected to, combining the process of handwriting and using my body as a mark-making tool directly, visually describing my emotional relationship with death and grief.
Stages of creating and processing the zinc plate
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Using my upper body to imprint on the zinc lithography plate with the help of vaseline, I used pressure and body contact to imitate a human relationship. With gestures like hugging the plate, grieving the emptiness of it, but at the same time protecting oneself.
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Through handwriting the poem over and over again, I built a connection to it, almost inscribing it into my own skin. Furthermore, the decision of offset printing it to inverse the text on the print creates a distance between this world and another, as well as protects the vulnerability of its meaning to me.
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