ABOUT THE ARTIST
For many years monotypes have been my medium of choice.
I enjoy the dialogue I have with the press and the process it entails. My
work and aesthetics derive in large part from my heritage — North African
— and my formative cultural experience growing up in Italy.
I begin my prints by traveling into memory and imagination. I am interested
in boundries and transitions. Both physical and cultural. How close can you
get? What happens when you get near? I try to create seemingly diverse realms
and patterns that can coexist in one space. The visual language is primordial,
melodic and industrial. I will use Arabic callilgraphy, architecture and organic
drawings —not necessarily to say something specific — but for
how these forms represent power, history and sensation and how they connect
with one another.
While I want my work to look simple and dramatic, at the same time I am interested
in subtleties. What may not be visible at first gets revealed upon a closer
look. Things are not always as they appear to be.
I use drawings on paper, transfers, rubbings repitition of patterns and other mark-making tools to build a progression of layered ideas. With each run through the press, as layers change and become more complex, history and memory become part of the conversation.
Member of California Society
of Printmakers