Resonance and Resistance: Towards a Home Unbound Collaboration with Helen Frederick
Resonance and Resistance: Towards a Home Unbound” is a collaborative print project of Helen Frederick and Chris Mona. This project challenges the myth of the solo artist as someone who operates in isolated independence, and demonstrates the source of intuitive visual exchanges that lead to multi-dimensional associations, especially underscored in print media. Works from the 2024 series explore war and conflict, with the potential for resolution.
Much of this series has as its matrix Helen Frederick’s lush and tactile custom made paper. The main series features eight large scale sheets in pulp of black, red, and green. With the paper understood as body, the print elements seen as embedments and overlays.
The collaboratively-inspired images feature boulders as mountain refuges, and sites of both enlightenment, and pestilent war.
Side projects, feature lithography, screen print, and woodcut printed on tinted and black papers. “Mosaic in Black and Red: In Search of Sacred Geometry,” acknowledges dark times, but is imbued with hope in the transformative interactions of Frederick’s linear but expressive geometry, with ogee images from Indigenous Mississippian culture. A powerful woodcut of an arm cuts through a surround of beautiful but pestilent golden flies. Male and female arms appear as reliquaries of power, resistance, and change.