Experimental screen print on silk

Procion dye formula

115 x 148cm | 45 x 58in

Puan two is part of a series of Apuan beings. I discovered Puan two when I was printing in the Apuan mountains in Italy. They say that in ancient times the Apuan people inhabited these mountains, they were the keepers of the mountains, they took care of the forests and land. They built the caves and the infrastructure that is still present now in the Apuan region.

When printing in the Apuan mountains I was exploring how forms come into the manifested space through light and space. Exploring bringing the invisible into the visible. In this time I made this piece and to me she is a goddess of the mountains.

She has an elegance to her forms, she is experimental, she is not ashamed of the process she went through to come into fruition in the way she did. She wears her scars and marks proudly and exposes the different layers within her that makes her the being that she is. A keeper of the sacred mountains. The keeper of knowledge of how to truly be and spread her light by embodying it.