“Like my paintings, the prints in this group are composed of many layers—somewhere between seven to ten. The layering allowed us to create a kind of depth that was not illusionistic, but rather, psychological. We weren’t concerned with the abstraction/figuration dichotomy, and instead focused on discovering innovative techniques and color relationships. One of our favorite techniques was to take one, very heavily coated print and place it face to face with a blank paper. The residue or trace of the fully saturated print would be the start of a new print. In that sense, the same marks are embedded in almost every piece but the layering differentiated them all in the end.

I think of all the prints as interior or psychological landscapes. Carl Jung, whose work fascinates me a great deal, talks about the importance of integrating our Shadow, or repressed self with our conscious self. These prints are perhaps my surrender to Shadow and my hope is that they will invite a similar kind of acceptance in the viewer.”

— Maja Ruznic, 2022