Therianthropy #3, 2022

What is the relationship between our bodies and our every day life elements? Some of those elements are ‘traditional’ drawing techniques, such as graphite, carving and etching, but this creation is one in a series of personal sketches that uses objects I found around my studio. As a creator, there is a relationship between the body that I imagine and craft and the tools that create that expresses this imagination in physical form? Working manually with the printer, I started to explore this relationship through interactions between my skin and the different layers and techniques. Using my skin as the background for those interactions, those elements started becoming layers that would fixed themselves on the body in their own particular way, until becoming one. The results were obtained by working manually with the printer, alternating phases in which I would manipulate the images directly, with other phases less controlled where I would leave space to chance.
This is a piece from an 8-pieces creation that explore the physical involvement in the act of creation.

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