“A medium is an “in-between” in which you go from one place to another, but also the material of that in-betweeness.”
-Charles Bernstein, The Art of Immemorability

“Entering and exiting, that is what makes the image: appearing and disappearing. Not first representing, but first being or making a time…the time [temps] of making or taking an image, the time of time itself, which opens the eyes. ”
-Jean-Luc Nancy



The missing body of print — has it not always been the case? A material residue; a physical, yet vulnerable trace left behind — deposited in the wake of our own passing through the world? With the assumed authority of a fact, the act of imprinting speaks emphatically, ‘I am here’, in a manner that assures its immersion in a present reality and relationship to physical things, but also, almost immediately, speaks the uncertain and lingering ‘I no longer am’.

For the last decade my art practice has explored questions of perceptual and material threshold by folding together of elements of printmaking, photography, and process-based serial drawing. My work brings to bare the temporal and spatial dimension of the pictorial image and its contingent, often vulnerable, relationship to the space of phenomenal, lived experience. In particular, I am interested in the double pull of print: pulling one way as a technology, a tool contrived and aimed by human will at carrying an image forward into the realm of the visible; and, pulling the other way—toward material erosion—becoming a barely visible trace of encounter.

David Scott Armstrong