This graphic, part of a wider series of monoprints titled ‘Grammar Lessons’, depict the human body expressing strong emotions such... Read More
This graphic, part of a wider series of monoprints titled ‘Grammar Lessons’, depict the human body expressing strong emotions such as anger, solitude, pain and love. They are created on old maps originating from the Institute of Linguistics in the USSR dating from 1915. These maps show grammatical and linguistic regional differences. By adding monoprints of various images of the human body onto territorial maps , I am considering our wider personal territories, boundaries and emotions, and, indeed, humanity’s. These prints of human emotions on Russian maps also remind us that in any geopolitical conflict such as the war in Ukraine , humanity exists, sometimes in despite of war. Unfortunately however, humanity can often be the first casualty of war, just in the service of redefining a border on a map.
