Devolution

Dorothea Van Camp: Devolution
HallSpace presents an exhibition of prints by Dorothea Van Camp. This latest body of work by Dorothea Van Camp, titled Devolution explores the connections of time and the visual marks that are formed in response to that experience. 

Dorothea Van Camp writes, “Much of the imagery for Devolution was ‘discovered’ when I noticed the dialogue between my overlapping transparencies scattered on my work table in preparation to expose screens. They were suggesting all kinds of figures, body parts, and animal beings, so I began shooting snapshots with my phone as I reconfigured the transparencies on my table. I consider those snapshots as source material for the entire series. 

In addition to screen printing, I have added monoprint, mokulito, photo-etching, and photopolymer intaglio to my tool kit, while trying to evoke the mysterious subjects that revealed themselves that day.