Echolalia: The Forgetting of Language

Echolalia: The Forgetting of Language, a series of unique screen prints, explores pattern and language as cultural signifier. There are two sizes: Large: 33" x 44" and Small 22" x 33”; they may be oriented horizontally or vertically.

The patterns, based on digitized motifs from nature, Buddhism, and 60’s pop culture, retain only traces of their origin. Nature is mimicked with scrims of flowers, machine-made and stylized, punning both pop art and cherry blossoms, the iconic Japanese harbinger of spring. The patterns are deconstructed and printed in perennial re-combinations of color and scale paralleling Warhol’s forays into seriality and abstraction

Repetition is the pervasive theme.  Echolalia, the involuntary repetition of words, references the actual printing process in the series. A small number of silkscreens were interchanged and repeatedly printed. As the patterns permutate from print to print, an analogy to spoken language, with its fluctuating, echoing and repeating words, is drawn. Reflecting the continual evolution of language, Lanzetta is “artist as DJ at the mixing table, spinning and weaving motifs from different cultures, experimenting with scale and repetition.”1 

1. Amy Chase Gulden, Apartment Therapy,  New York City,  Feb. 7th, 2017