Marketa Holtebrinck

When Stones Go to Heaven

Set of 12 screen prints made from graphite rubbings.

“The series originated in Awenda Provincial Park on one of the last warm days of the fall. The withered surface of rocks along the shore displayed such an unusual movement that the stones looked like frozen in flux. The graphite rubbings I took of these nodes of energy are a kind of facsimile of their natural history as well as the transitory moment the drawings came into being. Translating the rubbings through scan, bitmap, oiled photocopy, and silk screen onto paper came full circle with the decision to use the same medium for printing as what they were made with – graphite. With its semi-reflective, silvery sheen, the powdered substance imbued the prints with similar traces of the sublime I felt while on location. At the same time flat and three-dimensional, minutely textured, they appear floating through the transparent open shapes of color in a limited palette of yellow, green, blue, coral, red, violet – colors of water and sky.”