Marie Cole is a landscape painter based in Germantown, New York. Her works in oil, pastel and printmaking are inspired by the Hudson River Valley, Catskill Mountains, Cape Cod and the Delaware Bay.

The “Roadmap” series has evolved over the past year into an ongoing conversation about process and resolution. As my landscape work veered into a less realistic form, the exploration into solar plate etching careened into non-representation. It has been a transition in my thinking and a complementary approach to my printmaking practice.

How can I take a solar plate and create different images, feelings, and reactions? Will the final image suggest a portal into the future, a way to move forward, or a break from our everyday concerns about the future of our universe?

A ”roadmap” can be a guide, a plan, a goal, a timeline. It can be as simple as a map showing directions, or as complex as a political map showing boundaries and labels.

I start inking each plate with a “what if”…….what if I ink the plate from the bottom up to suggest an actual street map, what if the colors are in blocks and delineate a blueprint for partisan gerrymandering, what if the colors are light and airy and signal Springtime, or dark and foreboding and hint at Winter or death? What if it is inked circularly to imply indecision?

There seem to be endless possibilities, however, each person brings their interpretation to a work of art, even if the artist has a specific theme.

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