“Memento”, 2020

11.5 x 14.5 in.
Reduction Mokuhanga on Kizuki washi

Made from two woodblocks with 11 color layers

Much like a reduction print, memories are built with bits and pieces of moments, small seemingly unimportant details coalesce to form an image, an event, a snapshot of a place or feeling. When starting an image, I begin with a field of color, a mood, atmosphere, time in space that affects everything coming after it. Late June, Atlantic ocean, cool evening breeze on sunburned skin. Next are layered, the open ocean, cloudless sky, cold damp sand beneath our feet. The rhythmic roar of waves, smell of brine, building upon one after another. The image begins to form. Out of this construction a memory emerges, imprinted.