Emin"s monoprints have a diaristic aspect and frequently depict events from the past. Rarely displayed alone, they are particularly effective as collective fragments of intense emotional confrontation. Frequently they incorporate text as well as image, although some bear only text and others only image. The text appears as the artist"s stream of consciousness voice, at times addressed to another. Often seemingly naïve misspellings appear, helping to locate the words in the artist"s adolescent past. The rapid, one-off technique involved in making monoprints is perfectly suited to (apparently) immediate expression, as is Emin"s scratchy drawing style. Messy blotches of ink on the page a...
