timefulness
When engaging with printmaking, a dynamic space can be opened where I can be in conversation with the meaning-making process. The aim to be in partnership with the materials, where ‘nature’ exists as a subject, rather than an object.
“Rocks will teach you the inseparability of time and space (environmental space). I call this sense ‘timefulness’. I see that the events of the past are still present…this impression is a glimpse not of timelessness but timefulness, an acute consciousness of how the world is made by – indeed, made of – time.”
This ultimately requires a recognition that materials I collaborate with register time, just as I register time. We are both beings, existing and experiencing the world around us. Perhaps when we listen close enough, we can hear the stories being told way below the surface.