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Facing
Fish
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Orange Roughy 8" x 10" Edition of 4, 2004 Printed on white Moriki paper |
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Wolf Eels 8" x 10" Edition of 5, 2004 Printed on tea Thai mulberry paper |
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Tuna 8" x 10" Variable edition of 3, 2003 Printed on gold Moriki paper |
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Spotted Trunkfish 8" x 10" Edition of 5, 2005 Printed on tea Thai mulberry paper |
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Salmon 10" x 8" Edition of 5, 2004 Printed on white Yatsuo paper |
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Pumpkinseed 10" x 5" Edition of 8, 2004 Printed on tea Thai mulberry paper |
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Goosefish 11" x 14" Edition of 7, 2005 Printed on tea Thai mulberry paper |
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| Lisa
Studier is
an artist/printmaker living in New York City. These woodcut prints are
from a series of "portraits" of sea creatures intended to celebrate
their beauty and diversity in the face of increasing threats posed by overfishing,
global climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction. The entire series—as
well as information on Lisa’s technique of reduction printmaking—can
be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~lstudier/art/ One editor's musings: We all know what it's like to recognize a face in a crowd—out of a chaos of anonymous human bodies and body parts, some set of features suddenly compose themselves into a someone, a person, an individual we know and with whom we have a relationship. Similarly, I recently heard the mayor of Caracas describe the continuing revolution in Venezuela as a social process by which the previously anonymous masses of the poor and downtrodden were acquiring faces, by which he meant a simultaneously individual and collective sense of dignity, identity, and empowerment. And the same seems true of our relationships with nonhuman beings: a revolution in our ecological consciousness will come about, or will already have taken place, when we can look at fish and see them as having faces. Lisa Studier's art helps us to do just that. SPH |
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