Paper Dolls, 2025

I was asked:

“why don’t you make prints of your paintings?”

I was on the proverbial fence about turning my original paintings into prints.

Prints could afford me the potential to earn a small but regular income by expanding my market demographic to include art buyers with low-disposable incomes, but somehow my thoughts on this lingered in a negative light.

Producing art that is cheap enough for everyone to own also makes it easy for everyone to discard.

The idea of my creative efforts ending up in landfill was deterrent enough to counter-answer this question by making a series of original works which mimicked the print process by way of visual stacks of hand-copied images. The copies are all original, somewhat labour intensive, and are used as compositional elements to create value in the form of

“artist as an imperfect production line”

whilst embracing the inadequacies of human reproduction to the point of rarity.

There is only one original image, no matter how many people want it, nor how often the artist’s hand attempts to faithfully reproduce it.