UPwithART 2.0 - 24-30 May 2020

Grow Up, Little Girl

Biography
Megan Arnold is in her third year of the BFA program at Western University. Her artistic practice is based around drawing and printmaking, with a particular focus on comics. This is her fourth year participating in UPwithART.

Statement
My print has a classic silent film aesthetic. It resembles a single frame from a reel in what I imagine to be a bittersweet slapstick comedy. The scratches, although unintentional, work with this aesthetic, especially with the sepia ink – both give the print a vintage quality. The aquatint technique gives the print a grainy gradience that is also reminiscent of early twentieth-century silent film. The letterpress narrates the image as well as contributes to the aesthetic since silent films relied on frames of text to give narration to the story.