This series are sixteen artists’ proofs on paper I created during my experimentation with printmaking. I found myself without the fear of making mistakes during this process. First, I made the drawing on the iPad, carved the linoleum into two sections, and began laser-cut pieces into different sizes to use as monoprint matrixes. I explored with metallic inks and oxidizing textures. The work comes framed with untreated pine with gallery glass. For me, these pieces surround the idea of being a unique individual and the steadfast refusal of being placed in any specific gender stereotype. First and foremost, we are human beings. That’s the baseline.
THE MATRIXES
Every story has its beginning. During the pandemic, a time of hindsight, I made this linoleum print after a gestural drawing of a naked body that I made on my iPad. I decided it would be a challenge to carve these organic forms, so I jumped into the water without knowing where I would end up. I didn’t realize that this motif could be the most representative icon of my artistic narrative and personal research. Once I finished all my papers, in a mentoring session with Patricia Van Dalen, she told me these matrices were artworks themselves. Then I understood the poetry that existed in it. In her honor, I stapled them on raw wooden panels—Genuilly and honestly, like my new me.