linocut, linoprint, series, graphics, carving, oilbased, paint, canvas, black, white, photography, memory, absence, place, renewel
Description:
Let Things Get Better linocut, 200 × 100 cm (print: 250 × 150 cm), 2025 Let Thing Get Better is the outcome of a site-specific field study rooted in personal memory. Through the rediscovery of a childhood location, the work examines the interrelations of preservation, loss, and reconciliation. Its conceptual origin lies in a field study of a camping site and the surrounding forest — a place once associated with summers spent with my mother, later transformed into a landscape of homelessness and absence. The act of revisiting becomes more than remembrance; it is an exploration of the layered relationship between place and memory. Photographs taken on site were reworked into a digital montage, reflecting the fragmented structure of recollection and serving as the foundation for the final linocut composition. The ivy-covered tree functions as a vertical axis, suggesting transcendence while connecting the child’s gaze with the adult’s reflection. Motifs such as the pit, root, fallen tree, and trail mark refer both to specific memories and to the cyclical nature of downfall and renewal. The faded sticker reading Let things get better lends the work its title, embodying the fragile tension between hope and reality — an inheritance from my mother and a symbol of belief’s vulnerability. The forest, as a setting, stands between home and homelessness, memory and identity — a mental and physical labyrinth of belonging. The linocut technique, based on the removal of layers and the shaping of negative space, mirrors the process of remembering: through each carving gesture, absence becomes the very means of revealing form. The act of cutting transforms into a meditation on loss, remembrance, and the reconstruction of meaning.
Let Things Get Better
Fanni MakleitYear: 2025
Size: 250 x 150 cm
Technique: linoleum print, oil based paint on canvas
Price: n.a.