For this challenge we spent the session imagining our spaces we inhabit as foreign places to each other, entities or ‘states’ of being unique to each participant. The narrative development of these spaces that you hear about in the podcast led us to the creation of these stamps that each of us will share through the post to each other’s space and then virtually in our meet-ups.
Designing a stamp, much like a country’s visa stamp, gave each participant safe passage through to the other participants space. Using the sharing of this simple print making and consent exercise we moved through the spaces each of us inhabits but also created new spaces in-between each other of movement and flow.
Linking both our virtual between spaces and our inhabited ones.
Printmaking is an artistic process based on the principle of transferring images from a matrix onto another surface, most often paper or fabric. Traditional printmaking techniques include woodcut, etching, engraving, and lithography, while modern artists have expanded available techniques to include screenprinting.
A visa is an official document that allows the bearer to legally enter a foreign country. The visa is usually stamped or glued into the bearer’s passport. There are several different types of visas, each of which afford the bearer different rights in the host country.