"Blossom at the End of the Body" is a 42" long polymer plate etching on shaped kozo and iris paper with a poem by Beckian Fitz Goldberg.
The "Designer Corn" series are woodcut monotypes printed on pulp stenciled kozo papers.
"Este No Es Su Agua" is a woodcut triptych on kozo paper with a shaped title sheet. The title makes reference to water rights in the US southwest.
"Homegoing" is a 12' x 6' installation consisting of woodcut prints on shaped, kozo papers and is based on a poem by Honoree' Jeffers, about Phyllis Wheatley, the first published African American poet.
"Into A Corner" is an 8' x 6' installation of colored stenciled gampi on kozo papers. A memorial for victims of school shootings across the US.
The “Japan Tribute Papers”, are part of a series of pulp stenciled kozo and gampi papers which have symbols of various radioactive elements that have been found in the air, soil, water and food products in the areas surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facilities and as far away as San Francisco. The sheets have images of tea leaves, rice and seaweed and element symbols for radioactive plutonium, strontium, tellerium and cesium. Cesium has a half-life of over 30 years and was the largest amount of any individual chemical released from the reactors after the meltdowns. The images and symbols on the papers are colored with luminescent pigments that will glow in the dark for up to 12 hours after being in daylight for a few minutes.
Susan Mackin Dolan
sumac@comcast.net
susanmackindolan.com
The "Designer Corn" series are woodcut monotypes printed on pulp stenciled kozo papers.
"Este No Es Su Agua" is a woodcut triptych on kozo paper with a shaped title sheet. The title makes reference to water rights in the US southwest.
"Homegoing" is a 12' x 6' installation consisting of woodcut prints on shaped, kozo papers and is based on a poem by Honoree' Jeffers, about Phyllis Wheatley, the first published African American poet.
"Into A Corner" is an 8' x 6' installation of colored stenciled gampi on kozo papers. A memorial for victims of school shootings across the US.
The “Japan Tribute Papers”, are part of a series of pulp stenciled kozo and gampi papers which have symbols of various radioactive elements that have been found in the air, soil, water and food products in the areas surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facilities and as far away as San Francisco. The sheets have images of tea leaves, rice and seaweed and element symbols for radioactive plutonium, strontium, tellerium and cesium. Cesium has a half-life of over 30 years and was the largest amount of any individual chemical released from the reactors after the meltdowns. The images and symbols on the papers are colored with luminescent pigments that will glow in the dark for up to 12 hours after being in daylight for a few minutes.
Susan Mackin Dolan
sumac@comcast.net
susanmackindolan.com
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