Photo Courtesy: Ballroom Marfa and The Contemporary Austin
Latitudes, 2016–2019. One series of blind debossed etchings and four series of blind embossed etchings.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created in 1948 under the auspices of the United Nations to promote international protections for all people. The blind and embossed recreated UDHR etchings are translated in English, Spanish, German and Japanese and Chinese. This process creates a permanent yet subtle impression on the paper—a reference to how this treatise is often ignored. This combination of indelibility and illegibility speaks to the ways human beings are treated and mistreated the world over, and confronts history, violence, loss and memory.