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Ground Low by Kristina Paabus

$1,600.00

2025

Screen monoprint on paper

30” x 22”

In my work, I examine the systems we use to control our surroundings, as well as the structures that seek to control us. These systems encompass the psychological and physical spaces of architecture, language, beliefs, governments, and the internet. Through abstraction, metaphor, and a multidisciplinary approach, I create visual and spatial scenarios that investigate experiences of constraint and chaos. My practice examines the operations, fractures, and perceptions embedded within these structures, with particular attention to how power and restriction are produced, maintained, and resisted. This conceptual framework informs each project while allowing for variation in form and execution.

Kristina Paabus

2025

Screen monoprint on paper

30” x 22”

In my work, I examine the systems we use to control our surroundings, as well as the structures that seek to control us. These systems encompass the psychological and physical spaces of architecture, language, beliefs, governments, and the internet. Through abstraction, metaphor, and a multidisciplinary approach, I create visual and spatial scenarios that investigate experiences of constraint and chaos. My practice examines the operations, fractures, and perceptions embedded within these structures, with particular attention to how power and restriction are produced, maintained, and resisted. This conceptual framework informs each project while allowing for variation in form and execution.

Kristina Paabus

The body of work included in this application, for example, has evolved continuously since 2013 alongside other areas of artistic inquiry. These dense screen monoprints use reproducible media as a form of reinterpretation, layering hundreds of screenprinted stencils through a process more akin to painting than traditional printmaking. Drawing on concepts from game theory, including chance, strategy, causality, and consequence, each unique print develops incrementally, over years, through a mixture of random, calculated, and responsive decisions. The resulting compositions react to the digital deluge, examining information overload and the complex systems that shape perception.