Converging Collections: Imprints Celebrated Through The Process of Gathering

A collaborative printstallation by Laura Berman and Jill Fitterer
Hand-cut laser-engraved intaglio prints, dimensions variable, 2009.

This work gathers together in celebration and collaboration a harvest of our unique personal collections of rocks and human hair. Physically these collections are amassed of animal and mineral matter– but to us the hair and rocks are collections of actual prints. A rock holds an impression that depicts its own origin, while the DNA imprint held in each strand of hair maps a specific individual.

Printmaking and science are related by iterative practices, and in this context we consider this work to be an interdisciplinary practice. In contrast to the influence of technological advances in the printmaking field, this exhibition directs the viewer to the humble yet equally important origins of print– as a culture of harvesting, recording, examination and recreation.

Exhibited at:
IMPACT International Print Conference, Bristol, UK, 2009
Ink & Clay 36, CSU Pomona, California, 2010.