Formerly Present 4
The Formerly Present series continues with this new addition. Formerly Present 4 is 23.75″h x 40.25″w. It began with white cotton cloth that was painted screen printed, relief printed, and then stitched.
I went crazy building up layers of surface design on this artwork as the Formerly Present series is all about layers of history and memory.
The definition I am working with on this series is “Vestige: Visible signs left by a material thing formerly present.” Many of the screens for printing were burned from my sketches of an abandoned building, slowly decomposing to its base elements of rock, wood, and metal.
Photos by Deidre Adams.