Monotype Printmaking- To Be the Keeper

This body of work was an attempt to peak behind the curtain, around the frontward facing façade and dive into a darker, dirtier reality.

I found a duality in these nighttime images to my personal relationship with my home. The landscapes may be without the presence of a human form, but the perspective could only be created through the eyes of a lone viewer in the dark. It creates a strange loneliness that could only be found in witnessing private moments through the means of place, without ever being a part of them, separated by time. It reminds me of the quote by Fitzgerald in his novel The Great Gatsby. 

“High over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

This created an alluring feeling within me, one of both disgust and admiration. It was a pushing and pulling feeling, but more one of responsibility and obligation. I found a great beauty in my home’s ugliness. The resulting images from my nighttime walks are, to me, what it is like to be the keeper.