Greater Gondwana

Lockdown means no access to the college print studio, but I’ve been experimenting with a variation of an ancient printing technique called ‘takuhon’, which is similar to brass rubbing, or ‘frottage’. There is no need for a printing press, as you just lay paper on a textured surface and dab ink or paint Onto the surface, or rub with chalk or pastel.

This image is of the floor surface. I enjoyed looking at a relatively small area of usually unnoticed surface and transforming it into a vast map, imposing borders and deciding whether land or islands appear or is submerged. I imagine map makers and think about the human urge to record, navigate and sometimes control our environment. Making this work felt like a process that was ever changing and full of possibilities as the ink and pastel transformed the surface. And so a room became an imaginary world. An everywhere.