Frame by frame, prints from the "Zebra" series replace one another: the same plate, pressed onto different surfaces. Here is a zebra on a yellowed page from a typewriting manual — exercises and columns of letters showing through beneath it. The same zebra on a sheet of newspaper — a different era, a different text, a different mood. And then on a sheet covered in acrylic — the colour, the texture, the randomness of a brushstroke change everything.
The plate doesn't change. The zebra stays itself.
That is the point of the project, and the point of this video. I deliberately abandon the traditional logic of printmaking, where an edition means a series of identical copies. Here, every print is unique because its surface is unique — its history, its text, its colour and texture. This is not a copy. It is an interpretation. Each print lives its own separate life.
And in this rhythmic, almost meditative succession of images, a larger thought emerges — about people. Each of us has our own surface: our own culture, our own biography, our own marginal notes scribbled in the corners. Different conditions, different pages, different text surrounding us. But inside — something in common. Something that doesn't depend on time, or geography, or the language we think in. Something that, no matter what, will wake up the next morning and keep going.
The video lasts exactly as long as it needs to for you to feel that.
Works from the Zebra series are available in the store.
The plate doesn't change. The zebra stays itself.
That is the point of the project, and the point of this video. I deliberately abandon the traditional logic of printmaking, where an edition means a series of identical copies. Here, every print is unique because its surface is unique — its history, its text, its colour and texture. This is not a copy. It is an interpretation. Each print lives its own separate life.
And in this rhythmic, almost meditative succession of images, a larger thought emerges — about people. Each of us has our own surface: our own culture, our own biography, our own marginal notes scribbled in the corners. Different conditions, different pages, different text surrounding us. But inside — something in common. Something that doesn't depend on time, or geography, or the language we think in. Something that, no matter what, will wake up the next morning and keep going.
The video lasts exactly as long as it needs to for you to feel that.
Works from the Zebra series are available in the store.
