CathyJean Clark
The sense of rhythm in my work is to express the cycles that are an integral part of nature and so common to life itself. The rhythm of birth, life, fruition, death, decay and rebirth. Matter being transformed from one form to another. My work is often dark in order to communicate that there is so much more to life than what we see with our eyes. We need to engage all our senses, even senses that we may not be aware of at this time. The darkness suggest us to travel from the conscious world to the unconscious world.
For me there is a dialogue that takes place between me, the press, pate, acid and image. I dig, scrape, etch and burn my plates. This is very similar to planting, weeding and cultivating ones garden. I cultivate the image like one cultivates ones flowers.
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