A monotype deck on anger
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This was a short blind mark-making and word-association project using small cards, plexiglass, printmaking ink and random pointy tools, to briefly document the progression of a feeling that many of us don't allow ourselves to express: anger. Sometimes, this anger turns inward, and sometimes, interestingly, it can be expressed in oblique and satisfying ways that lead to the emotion being resolved.
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Now I'm pinned, seething in silence. I'm all hands. The darkest lines are drawn in this hushed surge. The brayer my dumb tongue rolls out on the plexifloor. Rattle and squeak. Nameless crowd at the murky bottom - no faces to it. Just a wordless current from my hand to the tool above the paper floor.
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Bubble
Anger should have raged and dissipated; instead it bubbles like a faultline on the ocean floor.
Wreck
I have no words for what I feel. Feeling-words are rusty old objects found in shipwrecks by foreign divers.
Numb
The ink takes, the edge dulls. Nothing else moves in the doldrums, just my hand.
Is this how alphabets come to be, in the stillness between feeling and after feeling.
Curiosity
Where is this going?
Land ahoy.
Verandah
The journey and the separation is complete. ​
Here is land, refuge, a slit of sky.
Sunburst
Here is a blinding that engulfs all feeling and restores calm.