EMILIE
HOUSSART
Chaos series, 2017-
A series of action-based paperworks that consider unique, interdependent systems and cultural responses to disorder.
Works in editions are made with the same strict set of processes, with a necessarily unique outcome for each print. Pictured are the first prints of each edition.
Chaos I: Variations
This series was made by colliding a 6" circular, machine-cut copper plate, inked once, with Japanese kozo papers Okawara, Ginwashi and Mura Rokubu under extreme pressure. Many of the prints are reflexive: impressions of themselves disintegrating, exploding, distorting and degrading in successive ghost prints.

Chaos I (theme) Monoprint on Ginwashi, 1/7

Chaos I, Variation II Monoprint on Okawara with pencil, 1/7

Chaos I, Variation III Monoprint on Okawara, 1/7

Chaos I, Variation IV Monoprint on Mura Rokubu, 1/7

Chaos I, Variation V Layered monoprint on Okawara and Ginwashi, 1/7

Chaos I, Variation VI Monoprint on Okawara, 1/7