Marie's Sixth Sense

Marie-Andree Myers

Printmaking / July 2011

6th Sense


Most of us are aware of our sense; smelling, touching, seeing, tasting and hearing. Not many of us are aware of our sixth sense, that sense of otherworldliness, a connection to something more and greater than their physical senses are able to perceive. A world of unseen encounters, unheard communications and untouched feelings. I decided to explore the different layers of our world; the ones that are superimposed and that we share with the spirit world.

For this last project, I decided to create some new prints that would be more appropriate for this theme of the sixth sense. I used the frottage technique on tracing paper with black and white printing inks. There are three layers of film; the first one is a map outline, that represents the world, and a sense of direction; the second one as the words: unseen, unheard and untouched, for this misconnection we have with the other world; the third one is a white mist of ink on the surface of the film, which represent the foggy veil between the different worlds. I also cut-out map shapes from previous prints created in class. The map pieces, like puzzle pieces, are floating around between the layers, the realms that make up our reality.

I continued to use maps in this last project. It felt to me that we would need them to find our way and tapping into our sixth sense. Since it is an uncharted world, a map would be useful and need for this to explore this other dimension. We would need a pathway to the discovery of this incorporeality.