Red Web-weaving Spider
Etching, typewriting, chine-collé / Variable edition of 10 / 10.5cmx15cm / 2025
I had been watching a spider in the corner of my room for days. It rarely moved, yet it was alive. I was sure it was alive, for it wove its web furtively. Fragile web, slowly subtending a set of coordinates. Its imperceptible movement projected across the coordinates, spoke of its jaunty liveliness.Etching, typewriting, chine-collé / Variable edition of 10 / 10.5cmx15cm / 2025
As a continuation of my experimentation in the performativity and plurality of printmaking, I've always been thinking of such speech of liveliness, from traces and movement. A tension that may not come from the image of a print, but from how making is performed. Making has its own rhythm and beat. Typewriting is quick and dynamic and irregular. Printing an etching plate is steady and grounded and low-pitched.
The variability in reproducing the same image with a typewriter is much greater than in printing from an etching plate. Just, the traces of vivid lives are in flux and never follow the same path, while objects of stable matter register only their slow fatigue in inertial time.