Mezzotint on Hahnemühle Copperplate

Edition of 20

11 3/8 x 23 5/8 inches (plate impression)

17 ½ x 29 inches (paper)

Remaining 10 from edition will become available on website after October 2025.

I decided to revisit a print I made in 2020 during a residency at Guttenberg Arts (as many things have been feeling like a fever dream relapse into 2020) You, Me, and the Moon (mezzotint) featured two tower structures based on water pressure towers around Brooklyn / NYC area tilting in towards each other over a fabricated paper landscape with a moon. It was meant to lean into themes of Covid isolation loneliness, witnessing major political shifts, watching and waiting. Having become totally infatuated with the old water towers in Poland, and at a distance from my own country (feeling a different kind of desperation and helplessness as global political and environmental events unfold) I thought it would be appropriate to approach it again 5 years later, this time as a triptych.

The center panel beam structure is inspired by the Wieliczka Salt Mine, which has these elaborate wooden support systems embedded between the salt rock to prevent collapse. The outer panels are based on two abandoned water towers in the Śląskie region: on the left, Chorzów that used to serve the former Zakłady Azotowe nitrogen plant, and on the right, the oldest surviving water tower in Zabrze (built 1871) which served the Zabrze steelworks.

I’ve been engaging with the idea of these abandoned water towers as witness to the heavy industrialization of this region. Towers (water towers, prison towers, watchtowers, hunting pulpits) have always intrigued me, as providing a vantage point, surveying or controlling something. I’d like to continue working with them as a visual metaphor for control, or the lack thereof.