Afterthoughts
Afterthoughts is essentially that: a series of thoughts about the afterlife. Vacillating between terror, anger, and derision, the writings try to express the inexpressible while acknowledging their limitations. An early 20th century bottle of Waterman’s Blue Black Ink was my collaborator in the paper works, it's deterioration and tainted sediment creating reticulations and patinas around the stark words, referencing the immense spaces of sea and galaxy.
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The textual panels are placed alongside cast paper ladder and boxes, elegiac representations of transfer and ascent, their translucency and fragility transforming them into mournful stand-ins of their former purpose.
Paper panels: Waterman’s Blue Black ink and Dr. Ph. Martin’s Bombay ink on Canson Montval watercolour paper, sizes variable. Ladder and boxes: cast Ginwashi Tissue and Ginwashi Mizutama, wood glue.
Ladder (2023). Ginwashi Tissue and Ginwashi Mizutama, wood glue, 244 cm x 46 cm.
Boxes (2023). Ginwashi Tissue and Ginwashi Mizutama, wood glue, 74 x 67 cm.
Section showing etc., after after after, and space = death.
Section showing if we all become stars, and., nothingness is hard to imagine, and did I leave the coffee maker on?
