Artist name: Megan Bent

Image: Isolation Walk 01, 2020

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Chlorophyll print on coleus leaf, 10”x10”, Archival Inkjet Print from chlorophyll print scan 30”x30” A teardrop-shaped hosta leaf on a black background. Printed in the chlorophyll is a self-portrait while wearing a face mask. My face takes up the whole leaf and only one eye is visible through overgrown sweeping hair. The face mask is decorated with vine and leaf patterns. Statement: Since the spring of 2020, I have been documenting the experience of being chronically ill and immunosuppressed in the pandemic. And the experience of the outside world demanding that people like me be acceptable losses for personal convenience or for corporate profit. The printed images illustrate the prolonged solitude of a year + in lockdown. The text stamped directly into the leaves conveys the dialogue between the administrative & public messaging to the disability community and my private thoughts and responses. I use chlorophyll printing, which uses UV light to print photographic images directly onto leaves, to explore my experience of chronic illness and how illness/disability is represented in society. I am interested in the disconnect in the way disability is most often understood as a purely negative experience and the way the fragility of nature is seen with a lens of reverence. The chlorophyll printing process (where one print/exposure may take anywhere from 8- 72 hours) relies on flexibility, interdependence with nature, and echos my experience of Crip Time, living in a body/mind that values slowing down, connection, and care over speed and production. The action of printing representations of disability onto leaves highlights the organic nature of disability, reframing it as a part of human diversity. The fact that chlorophyll prints are impermanent, and will continue to decay over time, asks the viewer to confront the interdependence and bodily impermanence we all share.

https://www.meganbent.com