davidlieberman: grupaok: Joan Snyder, Our Foremothers, 1995 you can read her statement here. she sai
davidlieberman: grupaok: Joan Snyder, Our Foremothers, 1995 you can read her statement here. she said: “Our Foremothers is a print that was commissioned by The Jewish Museum in New York City. I decided to make a print that included the names and histories of every woman who was mentioned in the Old Testament, Jewish as well as non–Jewish women. I included the names of the women in my own family, including my partner Maggie, my daughter Molly, my grandmother Dora, my mother Edythe, my sister Suellen, and my niece Hannah. The print was complicated to do… almost like composing a symphony. It includes lithography, etching, and woodblock. The woodblock section was the part of the project that was the hardest. Each piece of wood was cut into a different shape. After the pieces were inked, each with a different color, they had to be put back together like a jigsaw puzzle and then printed on the paper, on top of the already printed lithograph and etching sections.” image description: joan snyder’s complicated art piece. the canvas itself is a sand colour. it’s inked in a vibrant mishmash of colours with the names of women—among them jezebel, judith, rebekah, eve, lilith, and delilah. but there are many more, even small blue text which simply reads, “egyptian midwives.” eve’s name is written in hebrew as well. some women have epithets included, explanations. vashti is designated as the queen who said no to being abused. beneath naomi and ruth’s names, which are side-by-side, are ruth’s words to her. they begin, “whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge…” the handwriting is wild and varied. the words themselves shift in size. in some places the names overlap. there is smudged red like waterstains (or blood) in intersections, particularly over delilah and judith’s names, looking as if it has dripped down the canvas. some names appear scratched out. -- source link