“This web of time – the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the centuries – embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths, 1944
The Garden of Forking Paths
Waterless Lythography on paper
A1, A2 sizes
2022
The Garden of Forking Paths
Waterless Lythography and collage on paper (detail)
A1
2022
Inspired by phenomenological ideas, the series of prints aims to convey an immersive and embodied experience, by stimulating propriocentric and kinaesthetic readings- taking the idea of time labirinths from Louis Borges's literature and of immersion through 'haptic looking' from Gilles Deleuze.
The compositions don’t have a central focal point which leads the eye to follow the shapes’ cyclical movements and choose what to look at. The use of few contrasting colours and fluid shapes also makes it seem as if they are continuously changing. The pattern is something that draws the eye in a curious way and where the subject is lost. Through this loss of the subject (in the I/eye) in the work’s patterness, the images question the idea of a stable self and of being tied to one’s own identity.
The process of printmaking itself is a process of letting go and of not knowing how the end result will look like, where each colour combination results into something original and new from the previous print which derived from the same printing plate.