When you are young, you get worked up about things that later make you wonder why you ever cared so much. I am thinking of the series Women in Pursuit, which I once created using water and water-soluble chalk. I must have been going through a difficult period, because the drawings were made with a great deal of intensity. Sometimes I used dry chalk for the accents, and at other times a lot of water for the more sensitive parts of the work.
Some pieces from that time were sold, and I rarely made proper photographic reproductions. Instead, I would simply walk to a nearby copy shop and have color photocopies made, which in the 1990s was considered a revolutionary technique. I carried those copies with me for decades, from one home to another, and that has left its marks. In some cases the colors had faded, and in that sense AI has become the only way to make the work presentable again.
That is how I now find myself, almost as if by a small miracle, in possession of the complete series once more. It may be slightly polished, but the emotional charge of the work has remained unchanged.
