As part of the Festival of Printing organized by The East London Printmakers, I showed the series Vestige.
The work Vestige won the Printmakers’ Council Prize.
With the series Vestige, I was attempting to visually convey the notion of memory through trace. Experimenting with photographic and printmaking processes, lead me to fuse them into one print, where I combine photopolymer etching with blind embossing. The chimney breast becomes an imprint, a trace, a ghostly remnant/ reminder of the buildings’ past.
Based on the indexical relationship of blind embossing and trace, I called the work Vestige, which means a trace or residue of something that is disappearing or no longer exists.
East London Printmakers
Printmakers Council