SHIBORI
I have begun to devise ways to compress large sheets of paper onto the area of a smaller press bed. I adapted the textile dyeing technique of shibori to the printmaking process by stitching and gathering the paper so the ink wasn’t able to penetrate through areas of the paper. Just as with a pleated skirt or curtain, a significant length of material is gathered up in a bundle. When unstitched, the paper expands to its original size, revealing untouched voids of white paper intermingled with organic patterns created by the inked textile that lay underneath it as it went through the press. Evidence of the shibori process remains in the print, in the seemingly starched creases that maintain their shapes in the paper as well as in the impressions made by the binding threads that I used to create these sculptural forms.
Monotype works on paper
