Diana Al-Hadid

Hand-drawn Ball Grain Plate Lithograph on Essex paper
Triptych: 38 x 70 in (96.52 x 177.8 cm)
Center print: 38 x 26 in (96.52 x 66.04 cm)
Left and right prints: 38 x 22 in each (96.52 x 55.88 cm)
Edition of 20, 6 AP
Signed and numbered by the artist
Print produced in collaboration with Rob Swainston A07 / Prints of Darkness

Rob (Swainston) and I started working on the print before COVID hit New York City. I made various images with the expectation of layering them after we saw proofs—lots of mountains, some volcanoes erupting, and some of the woman in the mountain from Hans Memling’s ‘Allegory of Chastity’ (a painting I’ve been pretty obsessed with for a few years now). After quarantine, we returned to the proofs and I found that three images, when lined up together, suggest another allegorical narrative. The woman sitting in the crest of the mountain stands between an intact mountain and an erupting volcano. It seemed appropriate to leave the three black and white images as they were, side by side as a triptych, a reflection of the life the print lived from start to finish.

Diana Al-Hadid, on producing Hindsight