My expanded printmaking practice explores rituals of lament as the expression of grief, a personal and communal mourning expressed before God and witnessed by community. This body of work oscillates in its emphasis on differing points of the printmaking process, namely the matrix, the synthesis of the image, and the final print. I view the matrix as a metaphorical representation of the body, the act of creating the image as the labour of lament, and the print, a testament of the form that the grief once took. Each composition is a reflective construction, a collation of lived and observed experience, history, theology, and biblical narrative shaped into visual psalms and liturgies. The matrix holds potential in the ability to be changed. I display both prints and their matrices to highlight this duality: the memory of grief and the possibility of renewal. Lament then becomes an act of hope.
