Using printmaking processes I create metal plates in the size and form of train tickets. I am a compulsive collector of tickets and ephemera. I keep the used tickets because, for me, they become tokens; the dates and locations printed on their surface chronicle and provide stimuli for my memories of events and feelings. The form of the tickets is now enough to evoke these inner journeys. Displayed en masse, the permanence of the metal tickets reinforces their significance as artefacts: a collection of personal relics.
The images of edge-lands and train tracks that are etched into the plates come from my journeys to and from my home town. They depict literal moments of transition. However the collection is not documentary or archival, but is an exploration of narrative as a cathartic tool, realised in part through creating books of the prints. Through the physical and repetitive process of print making I investigate more personal anxieties of transition, and the discomfort that comes with my uncertainty of the future.
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