Miriam Singer
Artist’s Statement
Built Up
My works on paper in this exhibition are intuitive maps and abstract cityscapes. They are collages where imagery, color, and stencils are stacked and pressed into the paper. My process includes a piece of folded paper in my bag that I work on obsessively for a period of time (week to a month) while going from place to place.
The accumulated imagery becomes layered and busy with impressions of the cityscape, similar to the density of a changing city. Often the paper is ragged and worn, showing time and history in the folds. In the majority of my works on paper, imagery and colors are enhanced and layers added by the use of printmaking processes, such as lithography, silkscreen, woodblock, and monotype. I use an etching press to further flatten, add, or reduce each drawing.