Three smaller works. Plaque man. Cutout flat woman. Curved swimmer emerging.

I am of Vikings. Whenever I visit aunts and cousins in Sweden in the summertime, we are either out on the water, in boats 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 the plethora of people doing cold-water swimming as an every other day practice back 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. The screens got washed out then left to dry and fully harden. I then used silkscreen media and underglaze to print onto purpose-built clay forms which then got bisque fired.

Thee three smaller pieces are $50 each.

Clay with Silkscreened photograph (using black and blue underglaze.) Porcelain frit for decoration.