This series was created out of a process I call Magic Loves a Void
Like many people during the pandemic, I went through a very difficult time. Most of what I had depended on for a sense of security had been stripped of me.
It left me speechless.
This art show series was created out of a process I developed, Magic Loves a Void. It is named after the first series of prints I created in this style which was inspired by the words of Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, author of Moon Beaming. Sarah described the idea that magic loves a void in a course she was teaching about working with the moon’s energy that I took in late 2020.
Sometime in early 2021, my friend and studio mate, Briah Luckey, taught me how to screen print. I immediately saw the potential for myself as an artist right away— as soon as I pulled my first screen print! Initially, I learned to screen print on blank pieces of paper. I quickly got curious about what these screen prints would look like overtop mono prints I create with the Gelli plate. For proof of concept, I scribbled a background on a blank piece of paper and screen printed another print on it.
Aha! Something clicked. I could feel I was on to something.
Presently I am in grad school for Art Therapy and Counseling at Albertus Magnus. In my Spring semester in 2021, I was taking a course called Techniques in Art Therapy. One of my projects was to demonstrate and present the technique of printmaking and it’s therapeutic value. This is where I began to develop my signature process, Magic Loves a Void. I took the process Briah and I worked on together one step further by adding a journalling component as the first step.
It was at this time my process became clear to me:
Journal to express emotions
Gelli print on top of journal pages to move my body and help to move my emotions up and out
Screen print a phrase or word over the art processes to symbolize my new found clarity and reclamation of my lost words.
My Magic Loves a Void Process— along with many long walks, weekly breath-work sessions, studying the patterns of the stars and planets, surrounding myself with loved ones and as much beauty as possible is how I put myself back together and began to find my words again.
I now offer this transformative process to groups as a 4 hour workshop through my shared art studio @CreateSpaceNHV in New Haven.
Currently these works are on display at Raven's Wing Yoga
Full catalog can be seen here