HUH? by Tara Segars

At its core, printmaking is a medium rooted in reproduction and accessibility. Diaries, by contrast, are intensely private artifacts, often created with no intention of being shared. I am drawn to the tension between these two forms of communication. Through screenprinting, I reproduce and enlarge pages from a diary I kept in 2006, transforming deeply personal writings into images intended for public viewing. By using a process historically associated with the broad distribution of information, I make accessible thoughts and experiences that were once confined to the pages of a notebook. My work reimagines these diary entries as landscapes of memory, where writing and playful motifs transform private reflections into collective experiences. By layering text with imagery inspired by obscure toys from my childhood, I explore how nostalgia, vulnerability, and material culture shape identity. The diary becomes an unstable space where memory blurs fact and feeling, while printmaking serves as both a conceptual and physical vehicle for translating personal history into something shared. Through this process, viewers are invited to consider their own relationships to memory and the stories we tell ourselves about who we were and who we have become.