Artist Statement

My Name is Joshua Seguin, I am a fourth-year visual studies major at the University of Calgary. My main mediums are drawing and printmaking. Over the past few years at UofC, I've experimented with various types of printmaking, and I have recently found my favorite. Screen printing gives me the most freedom in layering, color, composition, and style. I love the process of watching a sketch turn into a drawing, then a finished print. It’s labour-intensive, but always worth it. In my work, I pull visual inspiration from video games, the internet, and Western and Japanese cartoons.

Bottom Dwellers

Mirage (VE III)

This was a project for my screen printing class, and the prompt was ruination. I imagine the figures seeking shelter for the night in the rubble of a long-abandoned structure, finding comfort in each other, around a fire, prayer, and carved stones as contextless monuments that they give new meaning to. They are nomadic little guys exploring the ruins of a land they are unfamiliar with, they look after one another. This work is inspired by tiny, cute 1-3 inch desk figures you can get in blind boxes, especially Smiski figures. Another major inspiration for this work is the water-logged swamp ruins in the video game Elden Ring.