Notes for Soledad
I make work with words that I want to spend time with.
Soledad=Solitude
And Soledad also has the word Sol=Sun
And the word Edad = Age is inside inside of it too.
We are on a planet
We are spinning around the sun
The sun is spinning in a galaxy
The sun has an age that has always already exceeded the scale of human time.
I think of this often. I think about solitude. Are we alone? Lonely?
This piece is based on a much larger work in which suns were made with embroidered concentric circles of yellow thread. Making a print based on an existing work is by necessity a translation. As Borges said, sometimes, “the original is true to the translation.” In the case of Shark’s Ink.’s “Soledad” this is accurate.
And then there is this: because of the gold leaf, every surface of the suns have been touched.
Dianna Frid
April 2021