Shee Prints

Beth Sheehan – Printmaker, papermaker, book artist.@sheeprints www.sheeprints.com

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I’ve been working on some lithographs lately.

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Memento, 2015-2022

Beth Sheehan

Nine panels and a time-capsule housed in a clamshell box. Prints: Inkjet printing, letterpress printing and trace monotypes. Time-capsule: Inkjet printing, sand from childhood home, pebbles, clovers, eyelash.4 inches x 5 inches x 1 inch (closed).​9 pages. Edition of 18. 

 Due to my lack of episodic memory, I have become obsessed with the documentation of my past. The photographs in this piece are inkjet prints of Polaroids that I took while visiting my childhood home in 2014. While home, I also documented my childhood journals. The trace-monotype text on these nine panels is from an excerpt of one of my entries. The act of re-writing the entry through trace monotype on each panel for the edition afforded me a kind of catharsis. Through the repetition, my aim was to solidify the memory of that day in my mind forever.

The letterpress printed text was derived from my attempt to recall the events of the journal entry a year after repeatedly re-writing it. So much of the entry has disappeared from my memory, leaving me with only hints and feelings of the day long past.​

Finally, the clamshell box and time-capsule were created 7 years after the original prints were made. Science suggests that the cells in our bodies replace themselves every 7 years. This fact is particularly interesting to me when contemplating how memories are likely stored and transferred to new cells during this regeneration process. By housing the remnants of the memory in the new clamshell box, the memories remain protected and are given a new context.​

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Reassembling (Remembering), 2023

Cut photographs and trace monotype in a handmade display box. ​4.5 inches x 6.5 inches x 2.375 inches. Unique work.

Reassembling (Remembering) was created as a response to Manuel Hughes painting, Untitled (Ribbons) in the Paul R. Jones art collection.

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does it scare you that in less than 3 months it’ll be 2014

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I made a fake music/food/print festival poster for my fake band called TarlaTan Lines that specializes in Printmaking Beach Songs.

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“We are not a collection of independent processes in successive moments. Every moment of our existence is linked by a peculiar triple thread of our past - the most recent and the most distant - by memory. Our present swarms with traces of our past. We are histories os ourselves. Narratives. […] It is memory that solders together the processes, scattered across time, of which we are made. In this sense we exist in time. It is for this reason that I am the same person today as I was yesterday. To understand ourselves means to reflect on time. But to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves.”

— Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

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Remembering projects I made at Penland and wishing I had the time to make more.

This was a drop-wall box with a pedestal that held a pyramid-cut vintage postcard.

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When a good friend dies, certain memories of you that only your friend had die as well. In this way, part of you dies with your friend.

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Penland deserves a high-five. I had so much fun assisting Golnar with her book arts class, hanging with all the book babes, and making a ton of rad print friends! Now I’ve got Penland Hangover though.

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Color mixing this week in prep for an artist to visit the studio.

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On this episode of Am I Drunk-Hallucinating Or Does That Type Have a Drop Shadow? we join Bethie on the Path train...

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does it scare you that in less than 3 months it’ll be 2014

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If your body destroys and replaces every cell in itself every seven years, how are memories transferred?

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make your enemies slowly lose their grip on their life by sneaking into their house at night and putting the Shutterstock Stock Photos watermark on their family pictures while they are sleepsleep

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I forgot about this but still feel soul-bound to it.