MONOPRINTS 2Q24

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Combining ink drawing, antique vinyl press-on lettering from the eighties,

and linocut on Kitikata green washi​

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“Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.” ​

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― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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A string of 4 random capital letters opens up a question around the casting of stories, and the observation of unaccountable phenomena. "2Q24" derives from the title of  Murakami’s novel, in English  "1Q84."  Two moons appear over Tokyo. Proximate graphically to zero, Q might be a placeholder for the out-of-time. In the autumn of 2024 in the northern hemisphere, for a period of weeks, an asteroid thrown from the lunar orb was orbiting Earth. Astronomers named this mini-moon 2024PT5. In the monoprint series, two linocuts stamps stand in for Moon's celestial toss. Rectangles in twos catch one another, chasing shadows. Gel-pen arabesques might be mapping. Lettering is set in antique vinyl from the eighties. A play on incommensurate tales,  told in sets of fours and twos...

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