Anna Guyton - Experimental Inkjet Prints

My experimental inkjet prints begin as digital images, but take on a new life once they are printed on unprimed paper, which does not absorb ink. The resulting image is wet, feral, and abstracted while still being indexicaly photographic. The fluid print transgresses borders, it reflects the violation of order and space that is commonly prescribed to fat and queer bodies. As the ink pools and interacts, drying ever so slowly, it collects and reflects traces of the world around it: dust, fleece, the artist’s hand. With various amounts and methods of interference, the surface can become especially microbial, topographic, or painterly. Bright colors demand visibility, they take up space. The prints, as well as the forms they depict, exude a palpable presence and speak to one another's unapologetic physicality.