Existing is Weird
Existing is Weird
- Creator: Jess Tornga
- Date: 2019
- Location: 8th St & W Bannock St, SW Corner
- Types: murals (any medium), reproductions (derivative objects), utility box wraps
- Materials: ink, vinyl
- Collection: Traffic Box Wraps
"My work as a printmaker focuses on a sense of changing identity. I utilize reduction printing to create a sense of the self as shifting, intangible, and temporal. The reduction method highlights the fact that you can reproduce an image, but it’s limited, it’s an original print but a print is a reproduction and it’s finite. Once you carve the next layer you can’t go back, you can’t recreate who you were and you can’t undo the material carved away. With each step you are definitively left with what you’ve done and what you have left to do. After spending so much of my life locked into characters and roles I was assigned by other people I’m working on inventorying and assessing what is mine and what I’ve accumulated from others. I want to see myself existing comfortably in my own body, accepting uncertainties and obstacles in life without being crushed by them. " - Jess Tornga
