full-swing summer printing

plus, a glimpse of the fireflies

Hello there! It's Jocelyn Mathewes from my studio in Appalachia. After a brief stint away at the beach, I’m back in the mountains and printing in my garage workspace again.

Backyard fires & prints drying on the line.

behind the scenes

The exhibitions I have coming next year have lit a fire under me. One of the major pieces included in the upcoming exhibitions will be an expansion of Para(site)dise.

Three installation versions of Para(site)dise, over the course of three years.

I need a lot of prints on hand to construct the components. The summer sun is coming to its peak for the solstice, which means I can print more quickly than at other times of the year.

Summer in full-swing means seizing every opportunity I have to make a print. Since my work is dependent on the seasons, I won’t tone or shape the prints I’m making now until the fall/winter.

Even then, I’m wondering if I even want to alter what has become a sort of diary of weeding. Laying all these prints out on a wall would certainly be a stunning sort of exercise.

Thus far, I’ve stacked all the prints created since March in a single pile under my 40lb cast iron print flattener. It’s very satisfying to watch it grow over time. A single day yields a handful of prints, but day after day, it really adds up—