The analog is my escape from our increasingly digital age of rapid consumption and constant documentation; each print I pull is an act of defiance in the face of the steady smothering of convenience. I take comfort in the slow, methodical processes of printmaking, the repetitious unfolding of years of practiced skill. I draw, etch, and carve short stories, excavating autobiographies, science fiction adventures, and dark fantasies from rumination and memory. Between the processes lie the answers I cannot find put into words when asked; each character reveals what I see when I look in the mirror. 

Printmaking is a time-intensive medium that often requires a digital surrender to analog manipulation through multiple stages of tracing and transferring before the lines are finalized on the matrix. This demands focus, a knowing of a line before committing to the act of carving or etching; it is here that I am drawn to reflection, to understand what this new facade reveals about myself. The rooms I photograph myself in are rarely mine, informing the possible poses as I rearrange myself in a space belonging to another. I scrutinize my own transience, both external and internal, through a practice of documentation and alteration.

Mimi King is a printmaker and collage artist living and working in Richmond, VA with her trusty studio cats, Captain Catnip and Clementine, and her husband. She teaches relief and intaglio printmaking and 2D Design & Color Theory at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.