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Justin Remo
Prinmaking bfa

MICA Maryland Institute College of Art

Specialisms: Printmaking / Cartoon & Comic Art / Illustration

Location: Baltimore, United States

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MICA Maryland Institute College of Art

The last times on dogwater beach

The Last Times On Dogwater Beach is a chaotic visual odyssey that explores the interpersonal weight of solastalgia, existential distress caused by negative environmental change. This series of handcrafted large-scale prints aims to convey my own solastalgic experiences and the conflicting complicated emotions I feel towards my decomposing interpersonal friendships, the chaotic degradation of my home, and the frighteningly rapid obliteration of our planet and the animals we share it with. Hand-carved into plywood, the matrices of these prints become memorial artifacts, satisfying the raw tangible craftsmanship of relief printmaking and physically preserving every doubt and regret engraved into their surface.his series stands as a bittersweet memorial to the global and interpersonal ecosystems I have inhabited during my adolescent years, and a farewell to the weight of my personal history as I witness the place from which my life began continue to sink from a distance.