Description:
Black branch-like scribbles connect to form a window-like archway, on the left sits a blue bird-like form, and the center white negative space. 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:
“My image began to emerge as the poem did – the lines from my “paper-skate fountain pen” looping over the paper/plate.
There are tree forms in the looping pen strokes, words, images. The little figure-image at the center of the archway (highlighted in iridescent blue) is of ink swirled in water – “weightless, lifted up by the wind”. The archway is also a mailbox, becomes a keyhole, or another room. Through the archway/keyhole you can make out the vague outlines of the paper’s watermark … almost invisible, in a “white whirling space”: but hold it up to the light and it appears, reminding me of impressions made in snow.
The image was created in concert with the paper choice.”
Tags:
black and white; abstract; birds; branches Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=UM+2019.1.2 |
