“The walls of the gallery feature a series of wall-pieces from my Earthware series. They depict octopuses and giant squids, both celaphopods, with weirdly accentuated reddish eye glow in their eyes. The squids are also brooding huge egg-masses, in size larger than their whole bodies. The digital images, printed onto PET-G film with UV-resistant ink, were manually transferred onto synthetic epoxy clay, a technique I have been developing in the last decade. The process creates a unique transfer each time. In this iteration I have added the lenticular resin-eye element to each work. As octopi and giant squids are often culturally considered to be the most alien out of all nonhuman lifeforms, the effect of the fragmented red eye is pushing them further over the edge of the unfamiliar towards a synthetic amalgamation. If we consider that the animals whose photographs were taken to create these images have long perished, it becomes obvious: the mineralized images consumed the biology”.
-Katja Novitskova