absence/presence
presence: hand-cut copper sheet metal, cold connections, mylar, string, paper
absence: cotton rag paper
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presence: hand-cut copper sheet metal, cold connections, mylar, string, paper
absence: cotton rag paper
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Through this series I explored personal loss: how it feels to have physical reminders of someone I had lost, but also the lasting intangible impression left by their absence. At the time I worked in a university's ornithology specimen collections lab.
Presence consisted of the physical objects. As with printmaking, they were built using layers, held together with pressure. Absence involved using exlusively pressure by running the cut sheet metal through an etching press and embossing the image into the paper.
Presence consisted of the physical objects. As with printmaking, they were built using layers, held together with pressure. Absence involved using exlusively pressure by running the cut sheet metal through an etching press and embossing the image into the paper.
