Untitled Mano

This piece is part of a suite of prints developed in the winter of 2012 when I was an artist in residence at Atelier Circulaire in Montreal, Canada. Those two weeks in Montreal were painfully cold and I had never been to a French-speaking city. With no access to my cell phone and no friends in the immediate area, I worked in the studio day and night and was mentored by master printer, Carlos Calado.

Calado pushed me outside of my comfort zone, encouraging me to experiment with a limited color palette in a larger format than I was accustomed to. It was the first time I printed monotypes on a lithographic offset machine and in those two weeks, I learned to relinquish control, unable to anticipate the outcome of each print.

The process of printmaking on a lithographic offset press requires layering inks and textures on a...