Eva Choung-Fux

REMINISCENCES ON A DREAMED OF FACE

Triptych A:

Dream Face 1
Dream Face 2
Dream Face 3

Technique: Sequence 21 variations of Xylographs from lost Plate
Size: woodblock 42 x 31 cm
Year: 1986

Triptych B:
Dream Face 1
Dream Face 2
Dream Face 3
Technique: Xylograph. Sequence of 21 variations of from one Lost-Plate
Size: woodblock 42 x 31 cm
Year: 1986
Triptych C

Triptych C:
Dream Face 1
Dream Face 2
Dream Face 3

Technique: Xylograph. Sequence of 21 variations of from one Lost-Plate
Size: woodblock 42 x 31 cm
Year: 1986

Since I was 10, it happened again and again that I was dreaming repetitively of a strange, oscillating face. Whenever I tried to see it clearer, the face would withdraw and disappear.
When in I was 50 and the dream reappeared, I decided to try to capture this vague, translucent, forever changing image. I thought I might get closest by applying xylography from the lost plate. All the images come from one woodblock, which I continually scratched with a veneer-saw, printing layer on layer in a rather intuitive manner. 1986, when I had stopped to work the cycle (it could have gone on and on), I felt calm and fine. A slight resemblance of the dream and its unknown dimensions was transformed into a physical matter.