Retroglyphs 2018-2021
“Because these works entail various forms of pictorial representation, there is no forthright declaration of the authority of the object-as-object, but there is always a subtle restaging of the dialectical tension between objecthood and its hypercoded opposite, with human outcomes that are provisional and far from certain.”
The Retroglyphs are all derived from the Heteroglyphs and are named for looking back at them. All of these are worked over the top of digital photographs of Heteroglyphs, printed on handmade paper. In addition to printer-ink they typically include collage, colored pencil and acrylic paint. Some Retroglyphs include fragments of Serigraphy and some largely consist of a Serigraph derived from the digital photographs.