plotter papers, carved rubber blocks, ink, tape
Ilan El Ghormli, Valerie O'Neill, Irene Ren
Stamp Designer, Printmaker
An interactive piece with three projections, each exploring one of the themes: love, sharpness, and death. Viewers were prompted with emotional and personal questions: Is your love hot or cold? How sharp are your worries, pains, or anxieties? How scary is death? They responded by stamping their thoughts onto the projections. Over time, the layered stamps build up into a dense collection of perspectives, messy, overlapping, and deeply human.
I designed and carved the three stamps based on the central themes: a love letter representing intimacy for love, a dagger pierced through a rose symbolizing the pain for sharpness, and a butterfly signifying rebirth for death. I also assembled the final catalogue documenting the team's work.