Faculty of Art

Printmaking & Publications

Marketa Holtebrinck

the bush is dreaming

Laminated paper cast of snow, illuminated by led lights in a custom-made light-box, installed over individual casts of snow with laminated intaglio prints on gampi tissue. Five individual pieces.

“This paper installation is a small part of my fieldwork on publicly accessible land on the west fringes of Muskoka I’ve undertaken in the last seven months.I printed imagery photographed on the site to give voice to the snow and, at the same time, invite ‘the bush’ into the fold (not the other way). I worked with the black-ink-printed intaglio on gampi tissue both on existent paper casts and in a new lamination – resulting in tactile, three-dimensional, photographic, paper imprints.To accompany the horizontally displayed laminated prints I researched the light qualities of the paper casts and built a fitting light-box to illuminate one of them. While working I realized that 'the bush' called me back repeatedly on full moon days/nights. The light-box and the snow imprints are physical, manual, and digital memory of that. It asks the viewer to feel, rather than understand, through the sensory appearance of materials involved.”