Brienna Kane

In my body of work titled Stories, You Never Told Me, I explore preservation, tradition, and family through the combination of text, photography, & screenprinting. Layering is a large part of my work from the accumula- tion of crystals and fruit pulp on my 'canned photographs' to cmyk screen prints. These processes allow for chance and connect with the cumulative process of memory and it’s tendency to misrepresent information. I create new, untold memories using the family archive and my own photographs and am interested in the influence photographs have on recollection.

I use blackberry preserves as a material. I’ve put photographs in a jar of homemade blackberry jam and completed the canning processes, letting the image soak in there for a few weeks before breaking the seal and removing it. I spread jam on the walls and have screen printed using jam as a substitute for ink, I’ve also done this using sunscreen. I enjoy using unconventional materials and getting messy.

I learned how to screen print at the art studio I work at and loved the physical nature of it and the motion. It takes muscle! I wanted to incorporate more layers, different materials, and get messier in my work. I wanted it to feel less precious and to have my hand shown in the work in a more direct way.