the cabin, 2024
The two prints are part of a series of dry point engravings on aluminum drinking cans. I document abandoned garden houses in a small town in East Germany that were once the meeting places for neo-Nazis and the poor. Far-right groups are prominent in this town, and smears of their symbols are on every cabin I find. Working from photographs taken in the garden colony, I trace the remnants left. My mark-making reflects me wading over branches and weeds. As I crawl through fences, I catch my reflection in the window, finding myself part of this gruesome place. The cans allow me to capture the process of building the story of what happened in the colony. The soft material traces one engraving to the backside, which creates a dialogue between my observations and my gaze, each reflected in a print.
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dry-point engraving, printed on Wenzhou paper, 30,5cm x 30.5cm
