+ Currency Part 1 - University of Alabama at Birmingham
+ Currency Part 1 - University of Alabama at Birmingham
+ Currency Part 1 - University of Alabama at Birmingham
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framed in the ways I have outlined above. I believed th<strong>at</strong> there was duplicity in<br />
the concept much as there was duplicity in the idea <strong>of</strong> printmaking itself. It seems<br />
self-evident th<strong>at</strong> the very process <strong>of</strong> printmaking, the cre<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> a copy without<br />
an original, cre<strong>at</strong>es something th<strong>at</strong> is unique and universal in precisely the same<br />
instant.<br />
Wh<strong>at</strong> follows, then, is an exhibition th<strong>at</strong> explores the notion th<strong>at</strong> printmaking stands<br />
as a trope for the contemporary cre<strong>at</strong>ive practice. One could read the media<br />
themselves as being subject to a single question, which became “Wh<strong>at</strong> does it<br />
mean to express an idea through the practice <strong>of</strong> a printmaking medium today?”<br />
Wh<strong>at</strong> is, and wh<strong>at</strong> do we mean, when we speak <strong>of</strong> its mode <strong>of</strong> expression?