I don’t know where the idea came from but I have a series of prints floating around in my head of foods branded with derogatory terms for women that we’ve reclaimed. What am I working on now that these pickles are printed? Hot Slut hot sauce. So if you’re not a pickle girly, maybe you’re a little more firey, hot sauce is comin’ your way soon!
This is a three-layer, three color print, which means that each color was printed separately, and each color has it’s own hand-carved linoleum block. This is my first multi-color print since college, so part of making this print was just relearning the process of registering each layer so that it aligns with the others.
In a way the current prints I’ve been making are just an exercise in having fun, making art in a way that is rooted in play, and getting my body moving in an art-making way again. Kind of like a warm-up, if you will. I would like to be making more deep and meaningful and impactful work at some point, but right now as I re-enter my artmaking space, making things that feel silly and lighthearted has been where I’m following my curiosity. So you get some silly pickles.
