Using innovative techniques, Stinnett’s recent prints focus on revisions in handwritten texts as unique moments revealing the mind at work. In the series Transcriptions, her two sources are the crumpled and scribbled notes of a woman of failing faculties trying to keep track of a fading world, placed with author Joseph Conrad’s autograph manuscript in which he famously sets down a vision of his artistic purpose at a turning point of his career. While the results are “both visually dense and technically complex,” as John Caperton, Curator of Prints and Photographs at The Print Center, notes in his exhibition essay, “her hand in the making of the work at first seems to be quite light,” more like direct transcriptions than worked art. You may see other read other essays about Stinnett’s work and see other examples at http://www.hesterstinnett.com