Stephanie Alaniz was born and raised in South Texas. Stephanie has been addicted to creating since she was able to hold a pencil in her small baby hand. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2016 from Texas A&M Corpus Christi with an emphasis in Printmaking. Stephanie is currently attending West Virginia University in pursuit of her Master of Fine Arts.  She has exhibited in numerous national and international exhibitions. She has attended Frogman's Printmaking Workshop for the last four years, of which three years she assisted faculty.

Most people do not recall any moment in their lives before three years of age, and at age seven memories begin to fade, known as “childhood amnesia.” Everything is a breath of fresh air to a child, as almost every experience can be new, exciting and mesmerizing.  Preservation of memory is an important part of the human experience because it helps us recognize instances that define us.

The fear of losing memories is often met with melancholy because they allow us to keep the past alive. In response, we succumb to the influences of time and gradually create artificial moments to
replace them. 

My work explores the pliability of the human mind between imagination and memory recollection. Children and childhood relics reflect innocence and discovery in order to preserve its importance, but also mirror the space between the perpetual and the ephemeral.

Crystala Armagost was born in DuBois, Pennsylvania and attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh where she completed a BFA in 2003 with duel training in 2D (Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking) and 3D (Sculpture, Installation, and Site-Based) work. 

She challenges the boundaries of traditional print media through exploration with wax, iron-based inks, patinas, and debris and photographs collected from nature and urban spelunking.  The works that evolve from Armagost’s process range from limited edition screen prints, complex variable editions, and one-of-kind layered pieces. Her mixed media work uses a variety of print techniques and found object to merge 2D and 3D materials.

Armagost’s work has been shown in the Pittsburgh area for over 15 years.  Her work has also been exhibited throughout North America including Wilmington, New York, and Toronto.  She has worked at many positions within the Pittsburgh arts community including as an instructor at the Carnegie Museum of Art, and as an artist collaborator for exhibits at the Andy Warhol Museum.  She has been a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh since 2006.   

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Jo-Anne Bates has transformed the process by which she produces monotypes: incorporating shredded junk mail for texture; tearing and folding the print before running it through the press multiple times; introducing text –words, sayings and statements used by and about black people; and adding lines of colored ink to her two dimensional sculptural type prints. “Exploring methods of creating philosophical road maps by making connections with color, shape, text, and more recently, texture, continues to be an ongoing and necessary challenge for me in creating these new monotypes.”

My work is directly inspired by two things; the work of Janet Fish, and the city I live in.  Still lifes inspire endless combinations of colors, shapes, reflections, and subject matter.

The city of Pittsburgh often inspires my linoleum prints.  The changing post-industrial landscape lends itself well to the graphic medium of block prints.  Pittsburgh is changing before our eyes, and I think I’m in a unique position to record it.

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MICHELLE L. BROWNE obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking and Painting from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Making large paintings with dyes on silk for many years, Michelle returned to printmaking, studying alternative methods of lithography in Villa Pignano, Tuscany Italy in 2005 with Master Printer Lisa Mackie under the auspices of Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York. Browne studied carborundum printing with master printer Susan Hover Oehme summer of 2008 at Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York. And she studied screen-printing on glass with Master Printer, Susan Taylor Glasgow at the Pittsburgh Glass Center summer of 2009.

In 2011 Michelle was a resident artist at the Guanlan Original Printmaking Base in Guanlan, China and has been a resident printmaker at Artists Image Resource located in Pittsburgh, and in December 2015 worked with master printer Javier Cabrera in Mexico City.  As a long time member of the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Michelle’s exposure to triennial Fiberart Internationals and to visiting fiber artists has inspired her to combine printmaking and fiber techniques. An ongoing collaboration with Leslie Golomb resulted in a series of silkscreened and pieced quilts that began life as block printed images of anonymous girls. From that series, Betsy in the Forest won second prize at Fiberart International 2010, and recently two quilts were exhibited in The Faces of Politics:In/Tolerance at the Fuller Craft Museum in Massachusetts. Michelle exhibits regularly in Pittsburgh galleries, and is preparing for a one-person show of her prints on fiber in the near future.

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Nancy Flury Carlson has a BA in Art from Drury College in Springfield, Missouri. She has been a member of the Pittsburgh Print Group since 1997.  Exhibits include The New Collective (2016-2017) at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Black (2013) at the Martha Gault Gallery of Slippery Rock University, and the Pittsburgh Print Group group show (2009) at the Merrick Art Gallery in New Brighton, Pennsylvania.

Like many people, I first made a linoleum block print in the seventh grade. For most people that’s a one-time experience, but I always came back to it. While linocuts are predominant in my work, I sometimes use other relief media as well as monotype approaches. I love color but also love the starkness of black and white. Working in black and white is a way of making order out of chaos, answering for each part of an image: Is it there or isn’t it? Is it on or is it off? What arrangement of black and white will represent the texture, the gray, the shadow? The best part is the surprise, the moment the paper is pulled from the block, and the work is seen for the first time after all that time spent drawing, carving, and inking. And don’t forget the smell of the ink.

More recently I’ve been using LEGO™ plates as a relief medium for printmaking. Using a large rectangular plate as the base, I place smaller round, square, and rectangular plates on top, inking them in stages to make multi-layer multi-color prints. This is a highly structured medium, a departure from my usual free-form approach to printmaking, yet the results can be unexpectedly lively.

My prints are hand pressed from a variety of surface textures. This allows me to preserve the unique visual rhythms and “inner space" of each object on paper. The works on this site incorporate textures from scratched wood, exposed wood grains, cracked glass, Romex wire insulation, duct tape and slate tiles. An example of this process can be seen in the print “Interface”. The inspiration came from a broken window pane. I carefully removed it from the frame in order to preserve the “smash” that issued from the point of impact. Through hand printing, I captured each facet in its intricate web of fractured glass.

Barbara Broff Goldman is a printmaker, bookbinder/book artist and fiber artist.

She is a founding member of the Pittsburgh Book Arts Collective. She studied graphic arts at Allegheny Community College, and then continued her search for the right medium at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, where she discovered her fascination with intertwining three different mediums. Printmaking became her main medium as it enhanced her books and fiber art.

Recent Exhibitions include Biennial International Print Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Dundarave Print Workshop, Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists, University of British Columbia, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, 46th Annual Art of the State Exhibition, Second Place Award, To Speak Her Heart, Two Person Exhibition, American Jewish Museum/JCC Pittsburgh, Hebrew Union College Museum, New York City, Industrial Past, Merrick Art Gallery, Group Exhibition, New Brighton, PA Haiti, Photopolymer Gravures by Barbara Broff Goldman, Christine Frechard Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Impressions, Pittsburgh Print Group, Framehouse & Jask Galleries, Pittsburgh, To Speak Her Heart, Two Person Exhibition, Cleveland State UniversityGalleries.

Leslie A. Golomb obtained a B.F.A. with University Honors in printmaking from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1975 and a M.F.A. in printmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. As a student in 1972, she accepted an invitation to study at the renowned Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Faculty at the summer residency included Jacob Lawrence, Louise Nevelson, and Philip Pearlstein among others.

She served as founder and director of the American Jewish Museum/JCC Pittsburgh from 1996 – 2006. The museum was accepted as a member of the Council of the American Jewish Museums and received guidance from the National Foundation of Jewish Culture.

Prominent awards include recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, PA Council on the Arts, and PA Humanities Council. In 2011, Leslie was a prize -winner of the China Guanlan International Print Biennial where she successfully completed a six - week artist in residency.

Noted recent exhibitions include Prints Tokyo 2012, Invitation to Celebrate 80th Anniversary of Japan Association, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, New Prints/New Narratives: Summer 2013, International Print Center of New York, Honors 2014, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China, International Print Triennial Krakow, Poland 2015, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Impact 9, International Print Conference, Contemporary Copperplate Photogravure, Akira Baba, Leslie Golomb, Taida Jasarevic, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, 2015 Guanlan International Print Biennial, China Printmaking Museum, 2015 International Print Conference, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, The Faces of Politics: Intolerance, Fuller Craft Museum, 2016 Brockton, MA, LIGHT MATTER: Art at the Intersection of Photography and Printmaking, 1954-2017, Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2017 and 6th Guanlan International Print Biennial, China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen, China, 2017.

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As a storyteller, Patricia Kennedy-Zafred creates thought provoking narratives using fabric, dyes, silkscreens, and ink to develop a visual dialogue with the viewer.  The interpretation of each piece is conceived through the lens of individual experiences, memories, or perspectives.  Her quilts marry a lifelong fascination with photography, history, and stitch, often reflecting faces of pride and dignity, sometimes under challenging circumstances.  The intent is that the technical and physical demand creating them is lost on the audience, as they focus entirely on the nuance or intrigue of the story, transported to another time or place.  Educated in journalism and photography, the making of art has been a prolonged exercise in trial and error, self-teaching and study.  The stories expressed, whether historical or personal, reflect upon our diverse American fabric, possibly reminding the viewer of someone or something they may have forgotten, compelling them to linger, just a moment longer.

Patricia Kennedy-Zafred has been telling stories through the medium of textiles and art quilts for over twenty years.  Her prize winning work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and has been published in books and magazines throughout her career, most recently Artistry in Fiber (Schiffer Publishing, 2017).

Kennedy-Zafred’s work has been accepted into such major juried exhibitions, as Quilt National, Visions, Fiberart International, Artist as Quiltmaker, Fantastic Fibers, Quilts=Art=Quilts, CraftForms, The New Collective, Fiber Options, New Legacies, National Fiber Directions, and SAQA juried exhibitions.  Her work has won top prizes at both International Quilt Festival and American Quilt Society competitions, and most recently received the Purchase Award from the State Museum of Pennsylvania for Art of the State 2016.

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The printmaking processes of monotype and intaglio have allowed me to represent a variety of themes and subjects that range from the personal and autobiographical to the symbolic and mythological. My prints echo my artistic process of drawing and painting.  I add layers of shape, color and pattern, and then manipulate, exaggerate, and animate marks. My prints are also about my personal process of remembrance: stepping back, taking stock, reminiscing, moving forward.

I have exhibited paintings in oil, acrylic and pastel and intaglio and monotype prints in numerous galleries in the Pittsburgh region as well as in statewide and national juried exhibitions.  Most recently my paintings were included in the 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.  I am a member of and have exhibited with Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Print Group, Group A and Pittsburgh Society of Artists. I have also taught a variety of painting and drawing classes to adults at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and through other educational and community venues. I received a Master in Arts in Teaching (1976) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1975), both from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. 
 

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Crystal Latimer is a multi-disciplinary artist primarily working in the two-dimensional mediums of painting, drawing, printmaking, and collage. Heavily influenced by her Latina heritage and a lifetime of travel to her mother’s native Costa Rica, her studio practice explores the hybridity and dilution of the Latin American culture.

Crystal’s academic studies have been based out of Western Pennsylvania, obtaining her BFA from Slippery Rock University in 2010, an MA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in 2013, and wrapping it up with her MFA from IUP in Spring 2016. Crystal’s recent publications include features in Art Maze Magazine, Ruminate Magazine, Fresh Paint Magazine, and a podcast interview through Dear Pittsburgh. Her work has been extensively exhibited in the regional area, including shows at the Pittsburgh International Airport, Mine House Factory, Gallery 4, and 937 Gallery, to name only a few. Her international experience includes a group show in Hong Kong, China, as well as an Artist Residency at the Joaquín Chaverri Fábrica de Carretas in Sarchí, Costa Rica, both in the year 2014. Crystal was selected for an Emerging Artist Award at Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Arts Festival in 2016, where she was also presented with a Juror’s Choice Award. Crystal’s work will be on display during Three Rivers Arts Festival 2017, both in the Artist Market and Juried Visual Arts Exhibition. Her work is included in several private collections in addition to the public collections of Indiana State University of Pennsylvania and PNC Bank. An upcoming, self-titled, exhibition at Penn State New Kensington is scheduled for October 2017.

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Christina Lee is an illustrator and designer who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University. She has also studied Illustration at University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Art and Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts. Her work is influenced by kitsch, comics, and a bad sense of humor.

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Joseph Lupo received his BFA from Bradley University and his MFA from the University of Georgia. His work has been a part of over 80 different exhibitions at the International Print Center of New York, The Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago, the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, the Indianapolis Art Center, and The Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta. Joseph’s work is included in various permanent collections including the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Texas Tech University, and the Spencer Museum of Art. Joseph served as the president of SGC International from 2008-10. He has received multiple awards and grants for his work as an academic including the “Honorary Member of the Council” award from SGCI (2014), “BIG XII Faculty Fellowship” (2013), “WVU Senate Research Grant” (2008 and 2009), “Excellence in Teaching” (2015), “Excellence in Service” (2014) and “Excellence in Research” (2013) awards from the WVU College of Creative Arts.

My artistic practice explores deconstructionist and postmodern theories of how we understand signifiers and language. In 2005 I began to deconstruct the comic book “The Invincible Iron Man”, volume 01, issue 178, published in 1982. Using comics gives me the opportunity to take apart and reorganize a cultural artifact that is familiar and considered complete. By manipulating aspects of the imagery, text, or story structure, I can challenge our assumptions about fixed narratives, binary definitions, and fixed meaning.

My latest series of prints evolved out of a previous project that alphabetized the same Iron Man comic book. The new work alphabetizes text inside certain word balloons to make absurdist statements that reference William Burroughs, the “cut up” literary technique, as well as DADAIST poetry.

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Maria Mangano is an artist who explores the intersection of nature, museums, and science to address issues of wildness, conservation, and humanness. Wildlife, especially the kind familiar to people living in cities, figures largely in her work. Birds, in particular, have always captured her interest because of the fractal-like depth of their physical complexity and their significance in human culture as symbols, augurs, and links to the spiritual world.

A native of Syracuse, NY, Mangano moved to Pittsburgh, PA to attend Carnegie Mellon University, where she earned her BFA in Printmaking/Drawing/Painting. She has exhibited in Pittsburgh at locations such as SPACE Gallery and Artists Image Resource, as well as regionally at the Chautauqua Institute in Western New York and Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati. In 2014 her work was included in Errol Fuller’s book The Passenger Pigeon, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon. Mangano maintains a studio in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Point Breeze.

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I am an artist living and working in Pittsburgh, PA. I live with my husband Jordan, our son Lucas, our cat (The Professor of Chaos) and our dog (Sidney). I design and hand print all my work in my home studio. The fabric and prints I create are inspired by my love for design, text, color and texture. Another huge inspiration is my mother, who is a quilter. I use water-based inks for all of my work. I received my Bachelors degree from Clarion University of Pennsylvania and my MFA from West Virginia University. 

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Maritza Mosquera is an artist, educator and community-transformation partner.  She has developed, organized, and presented new practices in arts education and artist-led community collaborations with several local, national and international organizations.

As an educator, Mosquera’s practice is focused on the individual learner and their place in the larger scope of community. She works with education organizations and schools to create workshops that speak to the schools’ education practices including integrating her practices with English, Science and History; paying close attention to writing, collaboration, presentation and various school curricula like English Language Arts (ELA).

Maritza has created in-school and out-of-school time arts programs for over 30 years.  Past organizations include Chicago Arts Partners in Education, Urban Gateways, Finding History in Ourselves, Dialogues for Democracy, and the Bioneers.  In addition, Maritza has partnered with and taught in various schools and universities across the country including University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, The Fabric Workshop, Perspectives and Noble Academies, Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School, Frick International Academy, and Schenley High Schools. 

Currently, Maritza has been collaborating with choreographer Kyle Abraham to develop community engagement programs for his new works, curates dialogue programs for the VOICES program at The Andy Warhol Museum, is mentoring Teaching Artists and is a rostered Teaching Artist for the Pennsylvania Council on The Arts.  She is currently working in her studio in Point Breeze.

Mosquera exhibits her own work nationally and internationally and has received grants from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, The National Endowments for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, and The Multi-Cultural Arts Initiative from the Pittsburgh Foundation. She received her MFA from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore.  She studied with Agnes Martin and Joseph Campbell at Skowhegan School of Painting in Maine.

Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Tom Norulak attended Carnegie Mellon University and received his BFA degree in 1971. After living in Philadelphia for about 5 years, he returned to Pittsburgh in late1977 and has made Southwestern Pennsylvania his home ever since. 

During the 1980’s Tom established a successful commercial screen printing business. He began his active career as an exhibiting artist printmaker during the early 1990’s. His work has been exhibited throughout the Pittsburgh area as well as in selected national shows at well respected galleries, museums, universities and art centers. He has taught printmaking at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts for over 25 years. He has also taught at Seton Hill University, Carnegie Mellon University Pre-College program, Carnegie Museum of Art and has been a guest instructor and lecturer at other schools and local art groups. 

 detritus: 

1. debris or discarded material 

2. fragments of rock that have been worn away 

3. organic debris formed by the decomposition of plants and animals

As a printmaker, my imagery of the last several years has been of natural and man-made objects which have been altered over the course of time by their interaction with the elements. The subject could be rocks and debris along a riverbank or a hiking trail, an uprooted tree trunk, driftwood, a truck tire, or an inner tube or dead fish washed up on the shores of Lake Erie. It could be abandoned machinery rusting in the woods or architectural vestiges of the past. 

I start by taking photographs of these phenomena, and use the following process to transform them into black and white etchings. Laser prints of the photo images are transferred onto a zinc plate with a solvent, and then etched in nitric acid. Using traditional printmaking techniques such as aquatint, open bites, scraping, and burnishing, the images acquire abstract or surreal qualities, bearing little resemblance to the original photos. 

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As a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s blue-collar culture, I have acquired a strong work ethic that has taken me from the alleys of Hazelwood to the halls of Carnegie Mellon University 1972 (BFA in Design) and Antioch College McGregor 2006 (MA Visual Arts).

Being a member of the Pittsburgh Print Group (and past member of the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators) has brought me in contact with many talented, energetic artists that have reinforced my need to create and produce artwork and incorporate this invaluable information and experience in the classroom.

As an instructor at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh for 40 years I have taught many courses in design, history of design, drawing and typography, and the recipient of The Gold Apple Award for an outstanding faculty in the Graphic Design Department, Inez Hall Award for Outstanding Faculty and The Student Choice Award for outstanding faculty.

 Professionally, I have solo and group shows in and around Pittsburgh, Pa, and as a printmaker I received the Juror’s First Prize Award – Heinz History Center - Pittsburgh Recast with the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators, and semi- finalist with The International Biennial Print Exhibit –Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

I am a 25-year-old interdisciplinary artist native to the East End of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, working predominantly in photography, painting, and printmaking. My work focuses on social, political, economic, technological, and environmental conditions in flux, and I am particularly interested in observing and commenting on the American experience in the 21st century. I consider my artist practice as both a philosophic exploration of the human condition and a vehicle for the advancement of progressive values.

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My artwork explores the American ideal of individualism from both a personal and contemporary feminist perspective. Points of reference are various essays and journals, from 19th Century American Renaissance writers, poets and artists to personal blogs that proliferate the internet. My main medium is photographic silkscreen printing, but my approach to printmaking is that of a painter. I rarely make editions of my prints, concentrating more on creating “unique” prints that involve many layers, sometimes up to 30 printed and reprinted layers of images, patterns and color. No two prints are ever alike. My practice is heavily reliant on the infinite ways color and form interact to create and redefine meaning.

My most recent body of work uses camouflage patterns as metaphor to explore cultural identity. Specifically, as an exploration of dualities in nature and in a person’s life. What we choose to hide and what we choose to reveal about ourselves. Within the shapes that make-up the camouflage design, I insert patterns and images culled from 19th Century engravings, botanical illustrations, vintage political magazines, and contemporary popular culture.

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The natural world is full of mysterious signs and symbols, both beautiful and frightening hinting at the knowable and the unknowable.  My inner world is fragile, ephemeral and constantly seeking to understand, interpret and find meaning in the messages of the universe.   My work has always been a dialogue between the natural world and my own inner world.  I seek out messages and interpret them through the transformative medium of printmaking.  The resulting images are the meeting place of that dialogue which at it’s best integrates those inner and outer worlds and finds a balance, if not wholeness, as a result. 

For the last twenty-five years I have been actively involved in printmaking and exhibiting my work in the Pittsburgh region and beyond.  I came to Pittsburgh with a BSE in art education from Northern Illinois University and graduate work at the University of Texas in Austin with a printmaking emphasis.  For the past several years I’ve had the privilege of serving as president of Pittsburgh Print Group and have been long time member of that organization.   I am also an exhibiting member of Group A.

I have taught collage and intaglio at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts as well as monitored and worked to maintain facilities for printmaking access members in the PCA print studio.  These experiences have allowed me to make creative connections with many printmakers in the region that has in turn energized and enriched my printmaking practice.   Participation in the printmaking community has also led to some great collaborations prompting experimentation with a variety of methods and materials including prints as part of paintings, prints on glass and on ceramics.  Most recently I have embarked on a challenging long-range collaborative project that explores the elements using the classic materials of paper and ink.   These collaborations have served to stretch my vision as an artist and push back my boundaries while exploiting the endless visual possibilities printmaking provides. 

My individual work is an exploration of themes and ideas that reflect a very inward gaze.   Collage and photo-transfer often serve as the starting points to the expression of both spiritual and emotional concerns and connections.   Captured images provoke and facilitate visual seeking and self-examination.  While drawing and painting are important aspects of what I do, printmaking remains the foundation of who I am and is the heart and soul of my artistic practice.