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Something That is Nothing That Anyone Could Ever Remember

In these six monoprints I am referencing the ancient Mesopotamian way of divining through the sheep liver by shaping copper plates to their form. Through this I suggest that Haruspex (or Extispciy) was the first instance of humans looking inside for answers, and that this is now what I do with my own work. In this practice the entrails of sacrificed animals were removed and priests deciphered divinations through the complexity of viscera, recording them on liver shaped tablets. Through the shaping of copper plates to the forms of sheep livers I’ve created my own divination tablets where I’ve marked images from my personal viscera of memory by means of chine collé. These memories are represented by textural environments from familiar interior spaces created through a process of accumulating printed layers with experimental intaglio and collagraph plates, mixing my inks with transparent base to build veils upon veils. By recording these textures on these plates I reconjure the associated memories. As the Mesopotamians used the inside of the animal’s body to understand their circumstances, I am printing to look within myself and understand how the brain functions in the processing of traumatic experiences.
Special thanks to Bella Rielly for making my frames.

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Winslow Loves You! Is a community-based printmaker who loves love and is always thinking whimsically. Winslow practices in a range of printmaking methods with an emphasis on experimentation. He works to create moments in print that prove magic is real. Using non-traditional techniques and exploring unreal dimensions in the stories of his prints, Winslow is trying to find the best way to describe the indescribable need for overwhelming emotions to escape the body.