Carol Wilhide Justin

In her RCA Degree show Carol is exhibiting ‘The Fold of the Sea’.  Gilles Deleuze described a fold as ‘the inside [being]…an operation of the outside…an inside which is merely the fold of the outside, as if the ship were a folding of the sea’. In Carol’s print wood grain and water are folded together using the template for solar panels devised by Japanese astrophycist Koryo Miura.

 Her series of three large woodcuts are entitled ‘No More’, ‘Meanwhile’ and ‘Not Yet’. ‘Meanwhile’ can be seen as a time without any points. Carol was drawn to the idea of creating a work in woodcut that shows movement and time, perhaps seen as past, present and future where the present is as Agamben says ‘the ungraspable threshold between ‘not yet’ and no more’.

  Carol was awarded a residency to study Japanese woodcut in Japan from japanese senseis. Her woodcuts are made using the mokuhanga technique where water-based pigments are used instead of the more traditional Western oil based inks. This lends the prints a more nuanced quality where the woodgrain can subtly show through the layers of paint. The use of monochrome is a means of transforming the original image, distilling it to its essential truth and meaning.