India Prints

The India Prints series includes two sets of four prints that began as wood engravings blocks completed during a Residency at Artspace India in Kolkata in November 2007.

The Rupees series was directly inspired by rupee notes and the arches used in Mogul architecture. The central image for each of the four prints is a two-inch by three-inch wood engraving that combines and indulges in these two design areas. The prints own an abundance of color, pattern, and layering to comment on the overall visual intensity of India culture even in something as seemingly insignificant as their paper currency.

The Table Meditation prints contemplate this same visual abundance. The central image for each of the four prints is a three-inch by four-inch wood engraving that depicts a dining table, whose silhouette is again connected to the Mogul arch, set for two individuals and seen from above. The engravings show a mapping of table movement or conversation between two individuals. The astrological maps and rules that exist within Hindu culture inspired these mapping elements. The engravings are then contained within an ordered chaos of color and pattern.