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sentatdon of each print draw you in.
She has said she seeks to make images that are relevant to now, our Zeitgeist: the spirit of our time. These prints, though silent are not wordless. We recognize words and writing — sometimes decipherable, sometimes not. We recognize images of houses, people, angels, warriors, and tools. Her meaning is layered with richly colored inks: delicate pinks that gently whisper, am airy blue and dark, rich, warm blacks and blues from which forms amd spaces arise. A deep, blood red is felt in the red ink’s thick, tacky quality. Pieces of imagery rise to the surface and even these often receive yet amother layer of color, inscription, pattern or image. The surface- wow - this is where we begin. The surface of the print is like a resonant dream state- layers upon layers of feeling, memory, understanding, amd form. Through the surface we enter the grotto of Heather Self.
These aire grounded images, not otherworldly. They are grounded in humanity: wheelbarrows, desks, writing, lamguage, bearing arms, houses. Technology is felt in the repeated use of transistor-like patterns amd diagrams. And we meet Spirit in this human world through the images of amgels and The Mother.
Particular pieces stand out. “The Precipice” is perhaps the most emotional of all: a haillowed figure, soft pinks, fight rising from the bottom into rich dairk layers of space in a perfect, smaill, horizontal format. The fight emanating from “Cherry Park” is the brightest and the piece exists in the most familiar space, with a cleairly landscape-like quality. The emotion expressed is simple and direct. “Still Point” is another favorite: a woman sitting, at a desk or instrument, with intimations of writing with musical overtones to the right. We see exquisite contours balanced by whispers of form.
Self has an inspiring artistic focus and mastery at this time in her fife. She has taken her time; being educated by fife, travel, family and friends, and her love of the printmaking process. She has walked thru another door deeply connected to her inner fife. Her prints reveal as much and more.
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