AGAIN AND AGAIN

Each print from this series is a unique monoprint. The prints are made with the same plastic bag over and over. The prints carry historic layers of ink from each previous run through the press, and each print catalogues the history of the bag through time. Its shape is cemented onto paper in permanent form. The bag, originally a plastic grocery bag from Schnucks in St. Louis, now becomes a future relic. In 100 years, will the plastic grocery bag retire its status of an object of daily use and become a novelty at an antique store? These prints find beauty in an object so ubiquitous it becomes invisible while also considering the forever-ness (or lack thereof) of plastic ephemera of the 21st century.

2019. Lithographic ink on paper. 15” x 22.”