Jonathan Barcan
Statement: Billions and Billions
This body of monoprints describes the challenge that society has to integrate nature with progress. The concept has led to combining imagery ranging from the figurative to the abstract. Diagrammatic drawings sit alongside anatomical illustrations, textual elements, and references to medical scans. The prints explore the progression of humanity in relation to the tensions and participations with the natural evolution of the world around us. It is as if without conscience, in the same way that a rock knows nothing of the hillside that it slides down or a molecule knows nothing of the biological current that it travels, our collective culture moves with a forward momentum that exists without memory.
To create Billions and Billions, I employ a variety of printmaking techniques, including Drypoint, Line Etching, and Aquatint methods. The completed works utilize a multiple plate printing process wherein each image is made up of ten to seventy different etchings, run through the press together on a single sheet of paper. Each resulting piece has a stacked and quilted quality, referencing compiled information and presenting many parts as a whole. I find that arranging larger compositions from a collection of smaller pieces allows for a creative improvisation which helps to push even further how the idea of drawing can be incorporated into today's printmaking practice.
Address: 8017 N Fiske Ave Portland OR 97203
Drawing|Encaustic|Etching|Paper|Print Making
Community: N Portland
Studio Number: 10
Email:jonathanHbarcan@gmail.com
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