Spring Sometimes Rises In Me Too (Script)

Spring Sometimes Rises In Me Too (Script), is the first edition of limited prints I made for Soho Home as a result of winning the Art Prize which has begun a new series of physical, object-making based enquiry within my practice.

This print is a blind emboss of the screenplay for my artist's film or "symphonic film essay", 'Spring sometimes rises in me too', created as a result of winning the Soho House Art Prize in 2020. The title is taken from Zadie Smith's essay "Peonies" from the publication "Intimations: Six Essays" in which she discusses her resistance / submission to nature, as a woman. Within this work, I interrogate the resonance of the mother's voice in the child, its echoes and imprints: what is lost from one generation to another; what remains; and what, when cultivated, grows. Metaphors for motherhood abound within it; the potential of which, a thirty-something year old woman felt slowly slipping away from her over Summer 2020, when this piece was produced.

The print, like the film, explores the "marks" our mothers' love and voice leave on "us", as well as the marks we leave on others, and the earth around us, through our care (or lack of it). Made by pressing a metal plate into paper, leaving the marks of the artist's handwritten script in it, the making process follows the meaning of the script it reveals.

Blind emboss on 250gsm Somerset Paper
Edition of 40

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