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Shipments to the Bardo
Ignoring advertisements online is a ritual of resistance. It is repeated but not without effort to refuse to view, click, or engage. In this work, the silhouettes of material goods are drawn from items advertised online. The marks are computer-mouse movements, tracings of where the hand and mind were looking online. The meditative processes of drawing and printmaking are opposite to the fast-paced consumerism of online life. By taking these items out of the very controlled online space, they can be used for purposes which are opposite to the online world.
In the process of making these prints I began to think about these forms as ghostly. In part because the process involves printing from an already altered flat of ink, making it a ghost print. I was also listing to a reading about the Bardo, a spiritual, intermediate space between the current life and the next. In the Bardo one reflects on their life and seeks to ease one's regrets. An real fear of my generation is using up our precious time on social media and online. I imagine in the afterlife, having to wrestle a regret of all the time spent buying things online or watching videos on social media.
In the process of making these prints I began to think about these forms as ghostly. In part because the process involves printing from an already altered flat of ink, making it a ghost print. I was also listing to a reading about the Bardo, a spiritual, intermediate space between the current life and the next. In the Bardo one reflects on their life and seeks to ease one's regrets. An real fear of my generation is using up our precious time on social media and online. I imagine in the afterlife, having to wrestle a regret of all the time spent buying things online or watching videos on social media.
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I made this body of work during my time as an Artist-in-Residence at the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory in Cleveland, OH. Thank you kindly to the Morgan team for your space and time!
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