Original Design

Hand-pulled screen-prints with images based on weaving design patterns. These works continue my interest in drawing visual and conceptual parallels between printmaking and weaving - the constraints of working with a limited number of lines/pixels/threads per inch in both crafts, playing with optics, geometries, and permutations with patterns and bitmaps. There is an inherent auto-didacticism with these practices, as well as challenges of material, meditative repetition, and intergenerational and community wisdom. The artworks touch on themes of illusion, permutations and samples seen through ideas of craft and our relationship to the natural.

The colours in the “Original Design” series come from the tannins present in oak gals, alder cones and black walnuts. These tree materials produce rich and stable dyes that can be darkened with the addition of iron. The dye was mixed with wheat starch to produce the screen-print ink.

Exhibited at SNAP gallery, Edmonton and Engramme, Quebec City