Philadelphia Through Copper: Intaglio Depictions of Contemporary Histories (working title)
- Katie Hindle
- College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies (FIGS), Undergraduate Program in Fine Arts and Design
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Student Creative Production Grant
Philadelphia through copper: intaglio depictions of contemporary histories is a print series of social scenes of Philadelphia as a form of archival contemporary history. Using Intaglio copper printmaking – building on skills introduced during a study abroad in Paris – Katie Hindle will portray contemporary, social scenes of Philadelphia in the a series of approximately twenty, unique prints. The subject will be taken from photographic references taken by the artist as a form of archival contemporary history, with the belief that documentation is inherently political, as is what/who/when we choose and don’t choose to represent in art. The focus will be on instantaneous interactions that represent a larger moment, such as between people at a protest or a food truck, centered in West Philadelphia. The crux of the work is in the juxtaposition it poses against ones expectation of intaglio prints, and the contemporary, familiar scenes it will instead represent.