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©2024 entheogen designintersect
sarah hammer & braden perryman
spring 2024
silkscreen print with acrylic ink, hvlp-sprayed latex paint, laser cut stencils, and acrylic paint on paper
dimensions: 18” x 24”
this series of works on paper are collaborations with Sarah Hammer (MFA), who explores moire patterning through screenprinting. moire pattern matrixes, like our intersectional identities, are emergent phenomena resulting from the complex interplay between bodies’ embeddedness within material conditions and interconnections with other materially embedded matrices/bodies/identities. subtle shifting of layered screens before ‘pulls’ result in wildly divergent secondary moire patterning - it takes two or more layers of grids (selves) to create these patterns (relationships). Hammer argues that like moire patterns, our ‘selves’ are both relationally construed, contextually dependent, and always in the process of becoming. intersection, in process and concept, references Kimberlé Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality, where our identities are located at the intersection of every facet of our being.
interspersed is imagery derived from the cave paintings of Lascaux, some of humanity’s earliest artistic representations of the world around them. the cattle and horses of Lascaux are deifications of nonhuman entities that played essential roles in sustaining human life through hunting and consuming cattle as sources of food. these cattle-forms are responsive to the conditions of the cave walls on which they are painted - certain pockets, cracks, and colorations in the natural stone ‘called out’ to early humans as more or less appropriate for different types of forms. early painted cattle-forms demonstrate an entanglement not only between humans, cattle and hunting techniques, but between humans, cave walls, sources of pigment, and socially-learned painting techniques, such as air-propelling paint - we used a HVLP sprayer, while ancients used bone pipes used to spray pigment in la Cueva de las Manos.
these complex and emergent entanglements, of which we are now part of, ripple outwards through many bodies, materials, and timescales. through this work, we offer homage to our human and more-than-human relationships, direct expressions of joy and gratitude towards a benevolent and life-sustaining world.
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