Collection: Repeater - Well Well Artist

Repeater

I have always been drawn to the quiet power of repetition. A single, ordinary image—seen again and again—can shift in meaning. What begins as something mundane gradually builds presence, rhythm, and sometimes an entirely new message.

In my early print work, I would often attend press checks and approve what printers call the “wet proof,” standing at the end of the press beside the print minder as the first sheets came through. To bring the press up to speed, printers would sometimes run whatever paper was nearby through the machine. The result was unexpected: fragments of new print jobs layered over remnants of previous ones, producing accidental compositions—strange, beautiful overlaps that felt both mechanical and poetic.

The works in Repeater revisit that experience. Created in Photoshop using photographs of collages I made several years ago, the images echo those chance press combinations. Layers repeat, shift, and accumulate, building intensity through pattern and recurrence.

Images that might once have seemed simple become something else when multiplied.

Powerful images—repeated.