Solo show in Los Angeles, at Don't Look Projects in Association with SLQS Gallery, London. 19/7-30/8/25.

For Flotsam and Jetsam, Taylor used selected details of the choppy sea, rolling waves, and billowing mast from illustrations by Doré, for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written in 1797-1798 and illustrated in 1875. The traditional woodblock, carved by hand in the late 19th century, was reproduced in the 1970s for Dover Publications before being scanned, cropped, resized, and repeatedly screen-printed onto canvas. Cut-outs from nature reference books intersect grids as well as the craftwork of crochet tablecloths, beadwork patterns, and other printed ephemera from the artist’s own archive. Themes of nature and culture, craft and technology, traditional and digital media, old and new are collapsed to highlight interconnections and uncouple apparent binaries. Decisions in the painting process are also reversed and “unpainted,” swinging between yes and no, fast and slow. The marine theme was significant to the time Taylor herself spent by the ocean during her residency at 18th St Arts Center, Santa Monica, where these works were produced. Alex Estorick with Diana Taylor.