Mapping Impressions, screenprinting on laser-engraved plexiglass, 2024.
 

Mapping Impressions tracks, interprets, and presents the monetary and temporal movements in positionalities of 11 donated analog prints listed on the Goodwill International secondhand auction website shopGoodwill.com, in the form of a spatial graph. It archives the history of fine art prints within a hypercommodifying virtual space with existing concerns over our conditioned tendency to possess, and value assignment for traditional print in the virtual contemporary public. The levels of the 466 pieces plexiglass pieces are proportional to the prices while the spatial separation is to time intervals between bids, with screenprinted images derived from the referenced print’s listed images and the laser-engraved bidder names.

With an underlying interest in printmaking’s history of information dissemination accessibility, these analog prints donated for free and existing under an auction system raises contradictions over audience, taste-making, value-making and how the digital bidder evaluates a reimagined impression of the listed print as an object. By preserving digitally archived bidding histories of these listed prints and spatially mapping such information into a graph, it highlights the anonymous agents of appraisal and the interactions between the publics and the donated prints going through the Goodwill Auction system filtered through levels of medium-specific visual literacy.