Olivia Bevan

Jellyfish drift

Jellyfish is a series of collograph and monotype prints that looks at how nature is something incomprehensible: difficult to capture and restrain. 

The works can be seen both as a map that plots and locates natural phenomena, as well as the floating and untouchable tentacles of a jellyfish-like life form. These works are based on, but not tied to, the ideas and imagery found in the poem Jellyfish by Marilyn Moore. This work plays on the ambiguity of these collograph printed shapes, and the idea of being unable to pin down an understanding of the natural world. This inability to comprehend is contrasted to the concept of mapping, as it is human nature to desire control over those naturally occurring ambiguities.