Echoes in Conversation
DESCANT
The online learning of intaglio was a fond memory as I could recall the first year printmaking process of last year and all the memories of going into varsity. This feeling was juxtapositioned to the feeling of being at home within the new rules that most abide by in our everyday life of the pandemic.
The feelings of not being able to move, nervous about what the future might entail.
In the medium I seek to explore the roles of gender within a household of a passing of a role model. I speak into this as in the stage 4 lockdown period where my dear friend's dad passed away, leaving a daughter, Son and Wife. In the day's events of a death where there is this curtain morbet discourse that is created, this perhaps from the different ways in which individuals deal with a loss. In the events i overheard a close friend to the family say to the son that he is now the man of the house. This is where my processing truly begins around gender roles within a house and how they are all founded on great misconceptions because they should be disclaimed as people's roles, gender irrelevant. This based on within that house hold the “Man” of the house was founded and carried out by the mother\Wife of the deceased. Gender roles were prescribed by an idea of what the male is symbolised through a warped sense of decourded created in a society, neglecting the facts of the discourse created in the household of the morning. My process and prints talk into a process of mourning and healing in a household of loss and the loss of a role model, this starting to create a theme evident in 2020.
My process reflects my feeling towards the ideals of a discourse of peoples placement within a society and the healing process that I have watched take place and the continued feeling the process take place, within the Daughter, Son, Wife and myself. Each piece that I have curated on the four plates symbolizes the journey and emotions that float around and proceed to come up because of that day. The plates depict a healing process and try to capture the true emotion of a loss and growth, Heeling and growth juxtaposed by the sensation of loss of a being.
