From Jill Moser:

“The week printing with you was unlike any other — both challenging and exciting in its exploratory nature and the freedom to find common ground in the process of working together.

It brought me back to some essential ideas and concerns in my work that I had lost track of, especially the index — the vital, generative, and complex nature of the indexical mark and image — and how it is what excites me most about printing.

What I love about collaboration is discovering the processes of the other, finding how to meet that in my own practice, and then finding the third way in which we build something new and unknown to both of us together. I think we began to do this together and I look forward to what comes of it.”

I have admired Jill Moser’s painting for many years, particularly her ability to construct space through gesture, rhythm, color, and interruption. During the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair, Jill came to the Bleu Acier booth and introduced herself. I immediately sensed that we would work well together.

Our collaboration on the woodcut series Fantôme du Bois became an unexpected and exciting discovery. Rather than producing the work we initially imagined, the process led us toward something more instinctive, fragmented, and spatially charged. The prints began to function almost like an index of movement and perception — suspended somewhere between drawing, memory, and structure.

What emerged through the collaboration was not translation, but transformation.