| Maker(s): | Clegg, Sally
| | Culture: | American (1988- )
| | Title: | The Sunburn Dream from the portfolio Traces
| | Date Made: | 2016
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | Hard and soft ground etching with aquatint on Hahnemühle Coperplate paper
| | Place Made: | Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, Massachusetts
| | Measurements: | Sheet: 15 1/4 in x 11 3/16 in; 38.7 cm x 28.4 cm; Plate: 12 13/16 in x 4 11/16 in; 32.5 cm x 11.9 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | SIGNATURE: front, lwr. r. (graphite): S. CLEGG; TITLE: front, lwr. ctr. (graphite): THE SUNBURN DREAM; EDITION: front, lwr. l. (graphite): 9/15
| | Accession Number: | UM 2019.1.9
| | Credit Line: | Purchased with Art Acquisition Funds
| | Museum Collection: | University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst
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Description:
Composed of two separate plates of images, the left plate shows a pointy-headed nude figure casting a long black shadow across the foreground of a desolate landscape. Above the horizon elongated worm-like shapes crowd the dark “sky.” On the right side plate a similar figure is entwined in large, worm-like shapes below a group of nude sun-burnt figures that appear to fly through the air against a large, moon-like shape. One of twenty prints in the portfolio, “Traces,” inspired by the poem of the same title by Annie G. Rogers.
Label Text:
Artist's statement:
“Reading Annie’s poem was for me like stepping inside another person’s memory or dream and being propelled through it. It took me to a place in my own mind where these types of memories are stored, and there I found the memory of the skin-crawling sensation of getting sunburn, which became the story behind my print.
It also evoked swarming and clustering imagery for me: the blizzard, etch-a-sketch, an incomplete paint-by-numbers.
I think it’s a terrific poem. My first reading of it felt as out of focus as a fading memory, and my most recent reading revealed an intricate allegory for the act of making a piece of art. I’ve found it genuinely inspiring as a prompt.”
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