Waterer, Diatom, Angel of Fishes, Fern

In Collections: Creativity in the Time of COVID-19

Copyright Status: In Copyright

Date: 2019/2022

Artists: Pai, Julia

Subjects: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , in art

Material Type: Prints (visual works)

Language: No linguistic content

Extent: 4 prints

Genre Note: Linoleum block prints in ink on paper

Exhibit Label: I didn't have access to a print studio during the pandemic, so the printing process for these pieces was done entirely by hand. I started off printing on cheap watercolor paper that I had lying around before eventually investing in specialized printmaking and handmade paper. The act of making things, especially things I could give as gifts, is immensely satisfying to me. Printmaking is especially nice because I can put a show on in the background and still do something that feels productive and fulfilling. Making these pieces was an escape from thinking about the pandemic. Carving a block, for me, is the most reliable way I can go into a 'flow' state, which was a way to stop thinking about all the other pandemic-induced worries I had in my life (personal, family, financial, etc.). --Label design by exhibit curator Nancy DeJoy. Labels written by Ben Lash and his team in consultation with artist statements.

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1 of 4: Waterer

Two pieces of slightly sheer white paper with the same stamped image in black ink. The image is a large bird pouring a watering can over a garden of sunflowers with its feet. Below the soil the flowers are growing in are fish heads, worms and pebbles between the roots. Laying beside the paper are two Flexcut Palm Carving Tools.

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Extent: 1 print

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2 of 4: Diatom

A rough edged, black rectangular paper with a smaller tan rectangle at its center. Stamped in black ink around the tan part of the paper are a variety of organic shapes, ovals, squares and circles with patterns inside stemming from the circle in the middle of the shape. Below the tan square in the middle, inside the black border, in gold ink reads; "3/10 "DIATOMS" J.PAI".

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Extent: 1 print

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3 of 4: Angel of Fishes

A rough edged, white paper with a design stamped onto it in black ink. The design consists of a ghostly shaped figure made of soil and a leafy plant growing out the head. The figure has two disembodied arms sticking out of it to the left and fins sticking out at the bottom. Inside the soil are roots, a smaller plant with roots below the arms, pebbles, fish bones and what resembles the head of a cat.

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Extent: 1 print

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4 of 4: Fern

A rough edged, black paper with a tan leaf consisting of many smaller leaves in the center. The leaf has five distinct stems; two out of either side and one large one at the top with many smaller leaves branching off either side.

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Extent: 1 print

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