Stefanie Wolfson
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
their own similar setting. By abstracting the environment, viewers are free to project themselves and their memories onto it.
Another process through which I create my work is through video art. These videos are what I like to call“ small mediations”. The videos usually are made spontaneously, when I find something particularly striking in nature.
For this special edition of LandEscape we have selected Waterscape and Antarticus, a couple of interesting pieces that our readers have already started to admire in the introductory pages of this article. While walking our readers through the genesis of these stimulating works would you shed light on your usual process and set up? In particular, how do you select your subjects?
“ Waterscape” was a small silkscreen edition that I really enjoyed creating. I started this print by drawing directly on the film. I let my body take lead, allowing its movements to create imperfect lines, to really show my hand and the idea of natural motion in this piece. The color was vital for this edition. I wanted to use a pale blue to evoke the feeling of a dreamlike setting – something that you’ ve seen, or felt, in the past but as a distant memory.
For” Antarticus”, the process was actually very different. I had spent some time looking back at older works that I no