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Nothing Gold Can Stay 2

Jowita Wyszomirska

Nothing Gold Can Stay 2

2022

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Jowita Wyszomirska

Nothing Gold Can Stay 2

2022

Physical Qualities Eco-print, colored pencil, ink, pastel, porous-tipped pen, and graphite on paper, Sheet: 1295 × 902 mm. (51 × 35 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Sidney M. Friedberg Acquisitions Endowment for Prints and Drawings
Object Number 2024.6
These shapes of foliage and hand-drawn lines evoke the sense of a place existing through time. Using foraged plants from the city’s Druid Hill Park, Baltimore-based artist Jowita Wyszomirska combined different processes to create a collection of chlorophyl-stained imprints conveying the cycle of growth, decay, and destruction that has shaped the mid-Atlantic region for centuries. Botanical printing, more commonly known as eco-printing, stains and transfersa plant's natural pigments, shapes, and textures onto paper. Wyszomirska’s drawings of wind patterns illustrate the interconnectedness of the ecosystem, while the mapped locations of surviving ancient forests recall the appearance of historical topographical maps of the mid-Atlantic coastline, such as Élisabeth Haussard’s engraving of the Fry-Jefferson map on view nearby.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2024; Gallery Neptune & Brown, Washington, DC
Engaging the Elements: Poetry in Nature

Inscribed: Signed lower right in pencil

Artist

Jowita Wyszomirska

1980-01-01 00:00:00

born Ząbkowice Śląskie, Poland 1980
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