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