ASU Herberger College School of Art Faculty Exhibition

October 18, 2008 – January 25, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, October 17, 7-9 p.m.

Mary Hood, Assistant Professor, Printmaking

Ten Thousand Tears, 2008
Intaglio, inkjet on silk, 40 x 96”
Courtesy of the artist

In the fall of 2004 I fully turned my attention to the Now and began hand painting 10,000 Tears. This ongoing project is an important tool for reflecting upon the current environmental, social and political unrest in our chaotic global theatre.  10,000 Tears seeks to create a visual structure, universal in its symbolism, for expressing that which is often inexpressible in language. A series of prints and artist’s books followed in which water is pooling, overflowing, diverting and escaping. The water in turn becomes the substance of reflection and a symbol for our collective sub-consciousness, and within each drop of water I etched my fingerprint to give an individual identity to the symbolism in the image.

More information: John Spiak, spiak@asu.edu.

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