Will Hübscher Artwork

Pennsylvania

Monotype (mŏn'ə-tīp')

A unique print made by pressing paper against a painted or inked plate, destroying the original plate in the process.

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Old, discarded, photos of people and places long gone and forgotten seem to have the uncanny ability to find me. Someone, somewhere, at sometime thought enough of these mortals to catalog their place in time. But now, far in the future, even their photographs become mortal with a finite time of their own.

So I happen upon this face, this moment, this situation, that catches my eye or tugs at my soul, or revives a memory of my own, and I create a new life for it freeing it from its heretofore demise from all memory, from all light, from existence itself.

As the architect of this new creation, I add color and texture and mood and feeling to fit my own interpretation of the precedent. I collage these snapshots and build and construct until I have reached a new wholly created image, a reincarnation: similar to the original, but certainly not the same.

So a life has been rejoined, reborn, reincarnated for the soulful satisfaction and visual impudence of its creator.