Description
Words fell, finally VII is part of a series of eight works on paper, created by revisiting lithographs from 2004, originally printed during a residency in Val David. Twenty years later, the artist salvaged these previously discarded and torn prints, integrating fragments from these and other artworks to form new compositions. Each features the silhouette of a woman’s body.
The source lithographs were showcased in the 2006 exhibition Neige noire at Sylvianne Poirier Art Contemporain.
Statement
Words fell, finally I offers a glimpse of a reflexive conversation, with the landscape, the past and with words themselves. How much is it me that is changing and how much is it my environment that is changing? As a young artist, lithography and papermaking were my primary focus. The lithographs of these collages were resurrected from a pile set aside for recycling. Many already torn or crumpled offered a new perspective and vital starting points for the collages.
Paper and papermaking and their connection to words are an ongoing focus. I am fascinated by the power, poetry, rhythm and the constant presence of words and text in our environment. Paper in my work is a metaphor for silence – a foundation for sound, a support for text. The blank space of paper dominates the collages.
Words are everywhere a river we swim in. This work is about transformation.
Karen Trask, from the artist statement for the exhibition, Then Again, 2004