Artist statement
BLOCK PRINTING allows me to spend extended time sitting, contemplating, working the chaotic unconscious into a coherent composition. Through a process of sketching, transferring, redrawing, and finally carving the block, the composition evolves into a flowing, expressive story.
The images are of myself and my loved ones, stripped down to the essentials and placed in abstract space. They reveal relationships through body language and the interactions that develop between them and the personas of the psyche. They vibrantly pursue the tipping point between self and other.
Distance, 12" x 12" linocut, 2014
Am I You Yet?, 15" x 14" linocut, 2016
She Sees Herself, 9" x 14.5" linocut, 2015
The Logic Comes After, 10.5" x 24" woodcut, 2015
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, 9" x 12" linocut, 2015
Give & Take, 4" x 6" linocut, 2014
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Nathaniel Benjamin, 2016