3 larger works in the series. This piece is the largest of the three.

I am of Vikings. Whenever I visit aunts and cousins in Sweden in the summertime, we are always either out on the water (in a boat) or in the water (swimming). Swimming in cold water is in my blood, but it was only in the winter following Covid that I embraced my birthright and joined the plethora of people doing cold-water swimming as an every other day practice here in Canada. It is now a practice that keeps me mentally and physically bolstered.

Process:
I had some old EZScreenPrint, photo-sensitive screens that I thought might be fun to experiment with for this photography show. I got my husband to model for some photos and set up a selfie timer for others to create the original photographs. I then got these printed onto acetates, which I laid overtop of the EZScreen out in sunlight for 1 minute. Anything dark in my picture masked the screen area from the sun so it did not “develop” or harden. I then used silkscreen media and underglaze to print onto purpose-built clay forms which then got fired.

Clay with Silkscreened photograph (using black underglaze.)