Printed Matter is pleased to share stripped of his thunderbolts and swans (2025), the third and final installment in Love is Blind, a series of three screen prints by artist Marley Freeman, made in collaboration with Leslie Diuguid of Du-Good Studios. Like the two preceding prints in the series, this final iteration was initially created as a painting and reinterpreted as a screenprint by Du-Good Studios. The series also marks Freeman's first time working with screen printing. While the screen printing process can often limit or flatten an image, the works in Love is Blind maintain the hand-hewn quality of Freeman's paintings, translating each brush stroke and variation in tone into a lush and vibrant work on paper. With its title taken from an essay by William Bass on Roland Barthes's "Death of the Author," the final work in the series touches on ideas of authorship, and what can result when an artist experiments with bringing other artisans and makers into the art-making process.
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