The closer you look, the less there is to see.

From Photo to Finished Print

A screenprint often begins with a photograph, but the photograph is only the starting point. I’m interested in what happens when an image is broken apart and rebuilt through the physical process of printing.

Halftone is a big part of that. I use different scales of dot to shift between image and abstraction — sometimes allowing the detail to almost disappear into the overall image, sometimes making the structure of the halftone much more apparent.

From a distance, the dots come together and the image reads as a whole. Move closer and it starts to dissolve, revealing the individual marks, layers and imperfections beneath it.

As the print develops, colour, registration and texture introduce another level of unpredictability. The original photograph gradually becomes less important. What remains is something physical, layered and entirely its own.