El TunelVIEW TEACHING RESOURCE From the Artist The tunnel, serving as a middle passage between thoughts and dreams, between one reality and the next, sets the scene for this surreal print. A mask like face looms large as a river flows into the deep beyond. With eyes scattered within its large eyes and flame like hair, the transparent apparition in the foreground appears to possess an all seeing power that must be met on its own terms. Little crystal shapes

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while the four intermediate figures correspond to the constellations traversed by the sun along its cosmic path

Ballard collaborated with master printer Alexis Nutini to develop a print that expresses the deliberate tension between beauty and violence that runs throughout her practice

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and assembled the still life that became the basis for his PrintLab work

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painting and printing are not at all alike

Her paintings are almost always installed unstretched

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I manipulate the object in a formal manner to engage the viewer in conversation about collective meaning

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