my father's footsteps, 2001
By
Pen Dalton
2004
Dimensions
30 x 35 [variable file]
part of a print Installation for PhD. family relations in art [see cv]
The big stepladder seems to be in a protective relation to the little ladder - like a father is with his daughter. The pattern of the anaglypta wall paper falls on both ladders and in an analogous relation, we shared the same practice: my father was a printer in the newspaper industry and i became a printmaker in an art school. The same but in very different contexts.
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