Following the passing of my mother in 2018, in the Jewish tradition I recited the Mourner’s Kaddish, a Hebrew prayer recited daily for a year after the death of a loved one. As a daughter, I found solace and comfort in the regularity and sense of connection to my mother and an ancient practice.

As an artist and a deep-rooted chronicler of the significant and the mundane, I went to the studio and found my way back to printmaking. Initially using a limited palette of blacks and greys, I created intimate monotypes on a tabletop etching press as a poem and prayer to my mother. I worked intuitively and viscerally eventually adding drawing with an inked brayer, graphite, paint, and collage.textures are part of my visual vocabulary to capture an internal and somatic landscape of our experiences. The netting offers tribute to my history of growing up in a millinery family surrounded by dramatic hats and accessories with veils and trimmings and signifies what we collect, filter and hold. The layered textures and patterns unfurl as a tribute: an intention to excavate grace and beauty in our ephemeral lives.