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Sam Wearing Three Mobius Strips as a Hat, 2016

Woodcut, drypoint, hand painting

Image dimensions: 15" x 11"

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From the series, Fascinators, in which the sitters are wearing mobius strips and other mathematical or paradoxical figures as hats. These forms could only be worn and held convincingly in the two-dimensional world of the print, though the surrealism is not immediately apparent. Combinations of woodcut, drypoint on copper, and hand painting, the flatness of the figures contrasts with the dimensionality of their headpieces and a narrative begins to open up between the adorned female figures and the mobius - a physical manifestation of abstract or invisible concerns. Themes that arise include recurrent and paradoxical thinking, the age of reason, communication, femininity, and the choices we make that define identity and our own realities.


Frame courtesy of Eric Rose Art Services