Monotype Experiments

I’ve always been pulled towards art that has an intuitive mark-making approach. There is something so freeing about play, and the results that come with letting your hands and your tools move automatically.


Although my recent sculptural work may seem more like puzzle pieces fitting together, or carefully thought out compositions, there is inherently a lot of intuition in the process.


Scaling down to a monotype process this week allowed me to work with mark-making strategies that mimic or relate to the larger work, but is so totally its own thing. I love how these turned out.


I used different pieces of scrap wood, wire, rubber spatulas, chain links, and paper scraps to push the ink around the plexi-glass plates before pressing them onto this drawing paper.


You can see that this paper wasn’t meant to get wet or to hold these types of prints, but it’s what I had on hand and honestly, I think there is something accessible and immediate about the crumbly paper that adds to the mission of these experiments!