Shee Prints

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.​

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.

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