all Red Riding Hoods do not come out of the forest safe and whole , started as a small series of seven text-based prints on letter-size paper, at my artist residency at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Printed in blind letterpress print process, each print contains a key sentence, two lines of debossed un-inked letters. And all seven create the full story. Having no color, the words can be read upon closer inspection only. Each print is placed within a 11 x 14 inch blind debossed intaglio print; and each complete work sits on top of a half-inch high handmade box to simulate a tablet/gravestone.
The story, I used, is of an eleven-year-old girl who was sold to the highest bidder in her village—a thirty-five-year-old man. She was abused and raped each night. It was the story of a survivor I met at a village. But it could be iteration of a story of abuse/assault of any young girl or woman anywhere.
© Indrani Nayar-Gall