Tatiana Ryckman, Can't Touch This

Monotype/GIF, Infinite duration, 2020

As art, and life, move increasingly onto digital platforms, I think it's important to notice what's lost from our physical realities. I am primarily concerned with curiosity--where a question posed to tactile material might result in an experience, a question posed on a digital platform is met simply with an answer. I use printing methods to work through ideas and images physically but translate them into gifs that enjoy the digital world as their natural habitat. 


For this project it was important to me to use humor to confront the situation that necessitates online exhibition--the fact that we cannot touch. Humor seems solemnly important right now. As Jack Gilbert wrote in his poem, A Brief For The Defense, "If we deny our happiness, resist our satisfaction, we lessen the importance of their deprivation."

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