Collaborative Work by Karin Davis and Summer Ventis
In these collaborative pieces, we translate texts, word by word, into color maps. In our individual bodies of work, we deal with interpretation of the physical landscape. As we collaborate over distance, language becomes the landscape that we share. Each map consists of our individual interpretations of a text, facing each other as mirror-images, with Summer's interpretation on the left and Karin's on the right. This mirroring draws attention to the translation process as an attempt to see the text, ourselves, and each other.
Elizabeth Bishop, you, and me
Approx. 7" x 11" / Two-Page Book; Watercolor, Graphite, and Correction Tape on Rives BFK / 2015
Second
Each Piece 13" x 10" / Watercolor, Graphite, and Correction Tape on Arches Cover / 2016
O America America
Each Piece 16" x 11" / Watercolor, Graphite, Correction Tape, and Hot-Stamped Foil on Arches Cover / 2017
Indivisible
Each Piece 4" x 7.5" / Watercolor and Graphite on Arches Cover / 2017
White-Headed Eagle
Each Piece 11" x 8.5" / Watercolor, Graphite, Correction Tape, and Hot-Stamped Foil on Arches Cover / 2017
Conquer We Must
Each Piece 13.25" x 9.75" / Watercolor, Graphite, Correction Tape, and Hot-Stamped Foil on Arches Cover / 2017
Huddled, Breathe
Each Piece 7" x 20" / Watercolor, Graphite, and Hot-Stamped Foil on Arches Cover / 2017
Cut in
Each Piece 10.75" x 7.25" / Watercolor and Graphite on Arches Cover / 2017
