Artwork description:

This is one of the first prints I ever did, after I started screenprinting, but it still holds a special place in my heart, and it has remained a firm favourite for others too.

It started with a simple sketch of a girl with her hand on her chest, her face turned away. I scanned the drawing in pieces (by necessity at the time, my scanner wasn’t big enough to scan the drawing in one go!), and then rather than reassembling the body parts into their original, coherent, positions, as I had done with other works from that time, I decided to duplicate and overlap them, using colours and transparencies to create a fragmented portrait.

I love the result, the layers bleeding into each other, bringing focus to her face and shoulder and then dissolving into the paper. The image conveys a certain fragility, a body made of pieces, mismatched but united, vulnerable and unbreakable at the same time.

I have sometimes tried to repeat this process with other pieces, but so far without managing to capture the same rawness as this one did.

Materials used:

waterbased inks

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