Match Test [6]

The natural world and environmental themes have always been a major focus in my work. Some of this is apparent in my use of (purely artificial or feeling-generated) wood growth patterns, often developed through a wood block relief print process.

For my Match Test pieces, using a technique of spilling and blowing metallic powder onto the wet ink of two freshly printed flow patterns, and then attempting to match these two prints in a simulacrum of a tree’s symmetry, I attempt to simulate natural processes in a purely artificial context. The unmanageable powder technique ensures that the ideal of symmetry can never be reached, but only reached for.