These works on paper are from RE_MOVE, a project that physically embodies a digital transatlantic dialogue in image and text from 2019-2020 between visual artist Kasia Ozga and poet Dan Rosenberg. Participants did not communicate outside of sending their work back and forth, allowing
this project to unfold within and between the media of its composition. Located in France, Ozga
produced images using the batik process with materials reclaimed from multiple former and ongoing projects including handmade paper, architectural drawing templates, thread, found pigments, and mixed- media elements. Located in America, Rosenberg wrote poems that similarly expand this dialogue beyond the binary of correspondence by responding not just to Ozga’s images but to other writers whose work spoke to the moment, including Emily Dickinson, Tomaž Šalamun, Yehuda Amichai, William Blake, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Søren Kierkegaard. This dialogue progressed as neither ekphrasis nor illustration, but as a series of incitements that continued until they exhausted Ozga’s supply of repulped paper.
RE_MOVE, 2020, approx. 36 x 43 cm, frame size 17 1/2 x 23,” mixed media/ ink, marker, pen, watercolor, thread, acrylic paint on handmade paper. 27 works total.