Original Letraset type
Container, Letterpress & Xerox on paper pasted onto objects, 2009, dimensions variable. Installation at the Union Gallery, UT El Paso, as part of Epilogue, senior group exhibition, 2009.
One of the many projects where I employed a wallpaper. An ink drawing was produced on Canson paper and then scanned, printed in a transparency to produce a negative. The negative, along with the words "CONTAINER" (Letraset type, scanned & printed on transparency) was exposed to a photopolymer plate for about 30 seconds. This produced a positive reflected image of the wallpaper. After hardening the polymer plate, an edition of 200 was printed in letterpress, and a second edition of 300 Xeroxed (photocopy).
The wallpaper then was turned into an installation, were the same containers in the image were the ones covered by the wallpaper itself using wheat paste. This piece deals with the significance of the container in our daily lives, how we use the product it houses, and discard it after the product is consumed. It also explores the idea of the container as a general term for life, as the human body, the house, the city, the planet, and the universe, the void, zero and the limit/limitless of matter that can be contained.
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