Con Fuoco
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Con Fuoco, meaning with fire, is one a pair of copper-gilded prints using the same woodblock. I see fire in the coppery color, the reddish glow of the gilding, and the energetic marks of both prints. I made those marks during a musical concert, and I hear the lively music when I look at the prints.
Inspired by the forest of symbols in Baudelaire’s “Correspondences”, I suspended my prints from the ceiling in groups much like I would arrange dancers on a stage.
The gilded surfaces of the prints reflected each other and the ambient light in the exhibition space. And the papers fluttered and danced with air currents in the space as well as the movements of passersby. Thus both the prints and viewers engaged in a quiet call and response dance.
My hope was that taking a moment to play with art would spark a greater awareness in the participant’s surroundings—the sounds, the air currents, the smells, the colors, the light—which she or he would then carry beyond the exhibition space.
