LIBERTY
“Sisters” by Ryts Monet
Sisters is a series of 88 monotypes, realized through a process of chemical transfer on paper. Each of them portrays a different replica of the Statue of Liberty.
This collection ends with a statue found in Ishinomaki, a place 100 km far from Fukushima. After the tsunami in 2011, this replica got irreversibly destroyed. The statue was found and photographed during a field trip to Ishinomaki, visited while participating in a residency program in Tokyo. This damaged replica of the Statue of Liberty can be considered the first element of the series and triggered this research on the original monument and its replicas.
