Karen Hunter McLaughlin

I’m not one who moves. Literally. I’ve lived in the same place, more or less, since I was 3. I share my childhood home with the boy I loved at 14. All my moves are figurative– my art is how I move. My comforting constants are the ever changing nature of nature, the language of variable line, and the design of my life. Ultimately my work is about place and time– line and natural form are used to distinctly reference my roots and the evolution of home. My current work, usually very large, explores the fine art of monotype and the spontaneous, corrosive properties of rust. The passage of time is an elemental concept that is represented by the movement through dark layers obscuring previously hidden marks, into open spaces to which they evolve or degrade. The act of corroding rust allows me to create beautiful line and rich area darks with an appropriately decomposing process. These small works, made specifically for The Clay Studio Small Favors show, were a unique chance to minutely view the natural forms that I usually use in a much larger manner. These origami boxed are created using my rust and ink monotype prints. I loved concentrating on the macro life-form represented by these little boxes.
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