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Many Lives
Lithography uses hard materials (limestone, aluminum) as As each source image’s paper plate is wetted, wiped, inked and
vehicles for a repeatable matrix, which is wetted, wiped, inked, printed, the paper plate disintegrates, resulting in prints that
and printed repeatedly, yielding nearly identical results. The show the plate’s (literal) wear and tear, or life cycle. Some images
plate eventually wears down from use, but only after many exact yield numerous prints (i.e. have long lives). Some yield fewer.
reproductions.
Each image’s prints are exhibited in the order in which they came
In Many Lives, I use lithographic printing as a base process. How- off the press, in rows and columns left to right, or right to left, or
ever, instead of stone or metal, I use a paper “plate.” And instead top to bottom.
of identical prints, I am investigating the simultaneous creation
and destruction, life and death, inherent in the monoprints and
Not surprisingly, the images become more interesting, richer,
their development.
more nuanced and more textured, as they “age.”
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