It was a place that was mine, where I went to touch base, revise, edit and criticize the poems. Now, I go to the studio to make prints.
Printmaking is tactile and physical compared to writing.
My plates are made from recycled materials, bits of paper, vinyl wallpaper, fabric, string, foil, anything flat and textured. These remnants are cut, torn, glued and inked. The ribbed section of wallpaper becomes the side of a building. The crumpled sheet of foil is flattened and turns into a section of asphalt on a side street in Somerville. Art is about transformation of materials into images, and about a transformation and definition of the human spirit through making and looking at images.