“Studies have shown that each time you remember a past event, new neural connections are made that will change how you recall it next time. We remember our memories, which become copies of copies. This accumulation, where nothing is fixed among the flood of information, and any attempt to hold on mutates the very thing we try to grasp, finds form in Eckert’s work.”
Hazel Eckert
Hazel Eckert is a multidisciplinary artist and designer currently based in Ottawa, ON. She works across analog and digital technology to create prints, installations and artist books. Eckert owns and operates Nothing New Projects, an independent risograph studio that produces artist-led projects and contemporary print-based works.
Traces act as evidence of repression, dispersion, unlikely affinities, secret histories, kinship, and artistic lineages.