CURRENT WORK
My work is about care and carrying. As a multidisciplinary artist I move between printmaking, mixed media drawings, fiberwork projects and a series of self portraits. Objects that I have cared for are embedded in the imagery. A cassette tape recorded by my father becomes a loose tangled line. The wallet my mother used becomes a printed shape with a profile like an island.
As a Printmaker, I'm exploring the materiality of paper, plastic and fiber things that carry things. The figurative vessels that carry things are duplicated, deconstructed and rearranged. The materiality of iconic brown paper bags and their handles is translated to a secondary page. Assorted contents are selected, arranged and inked to become the objects or the stories of the objects being carried. Flat pages, dense with imagery take on reimagined forms, inferring the turned page or the page in motion.
Slowly Moving With a Burden Bent is a Participatory Performance that begins with the artist's body in transit, slowly carrying an exaggerated backpack. The score is in 3 parts: tearing, twisting, anchoring. The end result is a collective poem, taking the shape of a tangled bundle before being 'read'.
In response to the chaotic and heartbreaking news feed, disciplines of printmaking and textiles are merged in an ongoing body of work titled Samplers. Monotypes mimic a stage curtain opening where titles, in all caps, announce the headlines. After the page is pierced the letters are laid with the slow, reflective, domestic labor of cross stitches.
Five Mixed Media Drawings are large narrative sketchbook pages. Text accompanying each image is a commentary juggling with the outcomes translated from our current dystopian identities of how we learn, how we work, how we live.