Placemaking
A series of woodcut and linocut prints made between 2020-22, as I was about to return to education to complete my MA fine art at The School of Fine Art, history of Art & Cultural Studies.
These landscapes are not the representations of dreams, or interpretations of maternal memories, rather they serve to document a process of place-making. I have combined imagery from my life lived in other countries as other, with scenes from my current day-to-day existence as a mother of two young children in the place where I myself grew up. The layering and mapping process brings together my interest in geology and rocks; the revealing of forms through adding layers also happens to conceal other elements I am dealing with. The history of the places I have lived in also interests me greatly and this is further woven into the printing and painting process, as I try to organise and understand my environment and my mother’s body within it.
