Borrowed Time at Bobinska Brownlee Gallery (Soho off-site project), London, May-July 2024.

The series of paintings, Escape Route, Plunging Through Flatness, and The Forest Dream (2024), all began with repeated screenprints of details from Gustav Doré’s illustrations for Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. The mid-19th-century original, Göttliche Komödie, comprising two volumes of highly intricate woodblock prints, was reproduced by Dover in 1976. This modern version is subjected to another form of reproduction, in which Taylor scans, zooms, selects, and crops areas of clouds and rock formations, then enlarges and screen-prints them. This same process of reproducing reproductions across various histories is applied to other books and ephemera in the artists’ collection- from botanical guides and taxonomies to photocopier alignment pages and graph papers.