Rachel Feinstein: Old Cutler
This etching by Rachel Feinstein was inspired by Old Cutler (2024), her site-specific wallpaper installation created for the exhibition The Miami Years at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida. Depicting the dense canopy of banyan trees over Old Cutler Road in Miami, the work emerged from her childhood memories of the city. Recalling the tunnellike effect of the trees, Feinstein notes: “I find myself moving down that dark, canopied tunnel as I close my eyes at night from wherever I am and realize it is the way I travel into my subconscious, much like how Hansel and Gretel walked in the dark forest and other fairy-tale subjects. After Hurricane Andrew [in 1992], my family returned to our house after we had to evacuate and Old Cutler had been stripped of the canopy; the nakedness was unsettling.”
Artist: Rachel Feinstein
Date: 2024
Medium: Etching with chine-collé on hand-dyed Gampi paper
Dimensions: 6 1/8 × 18 3/4 inches (15.6 × 47.5 cm)
Edition: Edition 3/20 + 10 AP
Signed: Signed and numbered on recto
Printer: Hitoshi Kido
Publisher: Kido Press
Framed: Sold unframed
