Historic 1 Viscosity Contemporary Printmaking

This work stages an elemental confrontation between containment and spill: a thick, biomorphic contour holds back viscous pools of maroon and black, as if memory itself were coagulating into form. The mustard-yellow field reads like heated ground or parchment, while the cool green border cools and stabilizes the composition, turning the image into a relic suspended between excavation and abstraction. Granular textures and stippled cavities suggest erosion and residue, evoking a “historic” surface where time is not linear but layered—pressed, seeped, and sealed. What emerges is a quiet archeology of the body and landscape at once, a totemic diagram of persistence under pressure.