Experimental screen print on silk

Acid dye formula

93 x 111cm | 35 x 45in

Earthly Hand, the first silk print I made and the one that brought so much clarity to me from a conceptual space. For me texture has always been a way to explain the unexplainable, to visualise this textured and layered life. Playing with texture and its boundaries started to reveal to me also how we can play with this layered experience of life and how we can being to alchemise and understand it through experiencing it.

For me earthly hand was a way of exploring texture in a chaotic and uncontrolled way, the technique was aggressive and not contextualised. However I created small areas of controlled space. For me those small areas brought balance to the uncontrolled spaces and texture. This was a lesson and realisation into the balance of life and how far we can dive into the textures of it, how we need to create spaces for ourselves of clarity otherwise we can get lost in the texture.

In all of this experimentation what was really special for me was how the form of a hand appeared. I had no plan when it came to the composition of the texture. After the hand was revealed to me. This showed me how even when we think things are totally out of control, there is still that divine guidance that appears to bring things back into formation. A guidance. This reinstalled a level of trust in the process and deepened my understanding and quest into the boundaries between control and lack of control, being the doers or the co-creators.