Let’s Face It, Part 3

My friend, Vivian Darroch-Lozowski, and I have wide ranging talks about climate change and the destruction of nature. We also talk about our creative ventures. So I sent her photos of the three “Let’s Face It” stamped monoprints I recently did. She emailed me fascinating thoughts about the works and gave me permission to share them. Here’s what she said:

“I had mentioned they (the prints) give a primal impression. For me, this is because many of the marks (spirals, serpentine curves) are as found in petroglyphs and the suggestions of natural process (leaves and bird and tree) also intermingle with such abstractions in petroglyphs. YET there is something more influencing the prints production (consciously or otherwise). This is why I wanted to study them.

In brief, I find them slightly terrifiying, too––and now interpret // see the influence of our technology on them (the digi-bits of ones and zeros, etc.) and the influence of IT’s effects on humanity at large––the eyes the “teeth”, especially in the third one. (The spaces between the beautiful trees, for example, are like teeth gritted.)

I conclude the faces are masks representing our primitive heritage overlaid with humanity’s current troubled devolution, which is not connected to humanity’s past in any sensitive way. So, what will be our legacy? I congratulate you on simultaneously holding these both in subconscious awareness as you worked. Or, were the latent kittens guiding you?”

*The latent kittens are from a dream and story I created several years ago.