Join Seattle Print Arts for a series of online visits with artists whose work was chosen by juror Thea Quiray Tagle to be in the August 6-31, 2020 Contemporary Northwest Print Invitational at Davidson Galleries.
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At this time, we are all staying at home or close to home. The world we have known doesn't exist anymore - not in the US or Germany where I grew up - nowhere - everywhere on our planet life goes on in a different way and still in kind of the same way.
Fast forward -
As I've opened my doors of my studio, because of the missing traffic noise, I was able to hear the chirping of the birds above that same door. Lots of it. They must feed their young up there. I can't see - just hear them. What a delight. Needless to say it lifted my spirit, out came the ink and the palette knife and off I went. You can see the result in - “nesting 3.”
Comfort women are a topic that is being eroded away because of the lack of reparations made on their behalf and the silencing by the Japanese government. The last living comfort women are slowly dying with their stories, and I want to uplift their voices and awareness. The flowers represents different nations impacted by Japanese soldiers during WWII who forcibly took women as sex slaves. Rose of Sharon for Korea, jasmine for the Philippines, and plum blossom for China and Taiwan, as well as "Justice for comfort women" written in each language. The chrysanthemum over the mouth of the girl is Japan's national flower, adding to the message of silence in my image.
During quarantine I have been reflecting on travel, going places, and the past places I've lived. The last place I lived before moving to Seattle was Santiago, Dominican Republic. The imagery in this print is a stylized composition of some of the people, plants, animals, and buildings that made up the street I lived on.
Image: Annagret Reichmann, “nesting 3,” monotype - soy ink on paper