Oops

is an aquatint - an intaglio printmaking technique. I had the tools and resources to do this in college, and these two prints are what is left and available from that time (2011).

When I started painting and drawings for a series of “Thinking Women” in 2017, I had forgotten this print. I found these amongst my storage in a move in 2019 and was stoked to discover the unintentional aesthetic and thematic connection, since I’ve mostly spent my life bemoaning a lack of a sense of my own “voice,” after a life of primarily seeking to pander to some exterior authority figure’s assignment (authority being either literal or imagined).  

My major required a printmaking class, only offered at 8am. As a perpetual night owl, pre-depression diagnosis, and in the frozen tundra of Utah winters past, I struggled with attendance and had to take the class twice. I was ashamed of all that and felt it deeply, so it’s funny to me that when I made this piece I was making no conscious connection between the image, title, and my attitude towards the class. (Oops.)