thepostdigitalprintmaker
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The Only Human Touch I Experienced Today Was Stepping In A Stranger's Footprint is a comic poem combining images of footprints along a sandy shoreline with a poem about the multiple selves contained inside the narrator. Using the human footprint as a metonym for the self, as well as the many different strangers who passed along this beach, the poem meditates on the dual interchangeability of people and the inability to properly define ourselves at any one time. Working remotely, Ellie approached the question of 3D printing by seeking 3D "prints" in the physical world, considering the prints we make both conceptually and physically on the world and those around us.
Ellie Schmidt is an interdisciplinary artist grounded in feminist theory and marine ecology. Her practice includes nonfiction film, large scale wood cuts, underwater photography, installation, sculpture, and “comic poetry.” By overlaying women’s stories with instances of environmental degradation, she seeks to understand the emotional landscapes of love and loss.