Aquatint etching
Paper size is 15”x11”
Edition size is 10
Year made 2025
 
This etching is part of a print series releasing on October 18th in the exhibition 10 Shadows at Morgann Trumbull Project’s Pop- up in San José, CA.
 
In 10 Shadows, Sennish explores the play of light and shadow through the ubiquitous breeze block, a central focus of her practice for many years. Sennish takes urban forms as her subject, relishing in the beauty of the banal and isolating patterns, colors, and structures that feel familiar. Breeze blocks—decorative, modular, and perforated concrete forms—offer a compelling intersection between material permanence and ephemeral experience. Sunlight passing through the geometric form of the breeze block casts ever evolving shadows in beautifully unexpected patterns onto the surroundings. These shifting projections enliven otherwise static surfaces in a kind of architectural choreography. As such, breeze blocks become a study in paradox—permanent objects that mediate impermanence.
 
Sennish typically embraces rich and vibrant colors, utilizing highly saturated, eye-catching shades to animate everyday forms. In 10 Shadows, rather than deploying her characteristic range of brilliant fluorescent colors, Sennish simplifies her palette to varying shades of gray. Monochromatic and understated, 10 Shadows embraces the beauty of subtlety. Though the color gray is often thought of as colorless and neutral, gray is, in fact, color neutralized. With close observation, one can observe that grays contain barely perceptible colors, a phenomenon that Sennish capitalizes on. Sennish hand mixes each pigment on her inking table, creating grays that quietly incorporate subtle hues, such as green, purple, or yellow. The result, each print in 10 Shadows features a distinct shade of gray, shifting slightly from etching to etching. These minute color differences are both engaging and disquieting, a faint allusion to the impalpable nuances that permeate our world.