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Julia LuceyGray Fox and Trout2021
2021
$4,600
£3,554.30
€4,109.10
CA$6,500.13
A$7,290.33
CHF 3,817.83
MX$88,584.63
NOK 48,480.09
SEK 45,962.54
DKK 30,672.31
About the Item
As a printmaker, using traditional etching and aquatint techniques has allowed me to explore the ideas of nature, wildness, wilderness and the human attempt at wildlife management. In my newest body of work, I am looking at two concepts. First, is to look at humans (and my own personal desire), to observe and know the natural world scientifically. The second concept is the use of this knowledge of nature to try to control wildness to fit human needs.
The use of traditional printmaking to create my images is a direct reference to the naturalist printmakers of the 18th and 19th century, categorizing and labeling the flora and fauna around them in etchings, engravings and lithographs. My etchings depict Northern California’s local plants and animals. Within some of my work, the etchings are meant to evoke the haunting sense of nature-in-waiting. Not necessarily dangerous, my animals, only partially concealed in intricate foliage, are watchful of the viewer, almost quietly hopeful of being noticed. My intent is to remind us of what has been pushed to the background in our digital and concrete society, and urge us to learn and respect what lives around us and the wild and delicate structure of their ecosystems.
In another set of work, I collage elements and layers of the same etchings, I cut up sections of specific flora native to Northern California, and try to give them order. In these pieces, I am creating organized, decorative interpretations of wildness – cleaning up what is untamed and unmanageable. In doing this, I am thinking about how human’s idealize nature and want it to fit neatly into modern life. We use botanicals in our textiles, creating our own patterns and colors. We dress our homes and selves in them. We surround our homes with manicured gardens, our own “tamed wilderness.” My work attempts to depict this control of wildness, but neatly within the confines of a frame.
Sourcing imagery from the flora and fauna of the California Coast, Julia Lucey combines printmaking and collage for a medium all her own. Lucey prints her exquisitely detailed aquatint etchings in multiple editions and uses a deft hand to cut and layer them into complex large-scale collages. The finished pieces are visually dense constructed environments that play on the character of her animal and vegetable subjects. “In some of the worlds I reference narratives and folk tales I imagine could happen, but with local animals as the characters. In other collages, I set the animal gaze out toward the viewer in judgement. And in others, the pieces are simply about the magical feeling of being in a wild space.”
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