Echoes of Time

Artist Statment

Nature holds memory. In my work, I explore how memory can be transformed though through layering and intentional errors. Printmaking mirrors how memory reshapes our perception of time and place. My prints and misprints, with their layered textures and colors, evoke something spiritual. By altering the print process, I reintroduce the felt experience that gets lost in photography’s attempt to preserve memory, transforming static moments into something more fluid and expressive.

Using the CMYK screen printing technique, my prints reference the commercial printing methods used in mass produced media such as magazines and newspapers. Digital cell phone photography captures everyday things that I manipulate—photographs of forests, the ocean, and family. Through CMYK screen printing, I rethink the idea of the multiple in traditional printmaking by reconstructing and abstracting these images by flipping layers, skipping colors, or letting the ink flood imperfectly. I use this method to translate memories—not just my own, but the shared, fading histories between people, places, and generations, that leave traces like the subtle marks left in a canyon by a river long gone. My artistic research rejects fixed representation, the work is shaped by chance and imperfection.

The Glacier Mountains, where I saw a ripple pattern in a rock, inspired this body of work. The pattern resembled the way water makes ripples in sand. Evidence of movement even though the source was long gone. I later learned it may have formed when the area was covered by an ancient ocean. The rock has memory embedded in it, like energy frozen in time. This connection between past and present, permanence and transformation, deeply resonated with me. It felt like evidence of missing images, this time in a landscape rather than a photo album. Just as water leaves its mark on stone, memories leave impressions that distort, fade, or solidify over time. In my prints I try to capture that same elusive quality—where moments are felt more than seen, and nothing remains fixed.