Mary K. O’Shaughnessy

Faded Love (2010)
4 color letterpress manipulated photograph
12″ x 9″ (image) / 23.5″ x 19.25″ (framed)

Its a Dog’s World (2010)
4 color letterpress manipulated photograph
12″ x 9″ (image) / 23.5″ x 19.25″(framed)

This series is about chronicling images from our home. We have created
vignettes in our loft space that tell tales. This summer I am taking everything down and packing stuff away, time for a change, thus the chronicling. I manipulate the photos on the computer and then separate them into CMYK. Film and plates made, then printed on my letterpress. A wonderful meld of old and new technologies.

The physicality of the image moves it further away the original, which is a reoccurring theme in my art. It is the memory and how that image is distorted through time, emotion, loss, that we can never see that memory perfectly again. That is why I like to find ways to change the photos we take to preserve, hopefully, those memories.

© Mary K. O’Shaughnessy