This ongoing series of broadsides, a proclamation printed on one side of a single sheet of paper, advocates for Human Rights issues specific to LGBTQIA+ Communities and Disability Justice responding to right-wing backlash against populations that are minoritized and othered. As a Queer, Non-binary, Differently Abled Individuals these works speak to my existence and the existences of my communities. These risograph collages rely upon language to define their content contending with the understanding that “no position” is a political position. In the gallery the works are displayed wheat pasted to multiple wooden panels as they would be in built spaces accompanied by a city bench for seating. My hope for this socially engaged project is that the editions of posters will permeate lived spaces beyond the taller inspiring productive dialogue.
Risograph Collage on Panel
3’x9’
Risograph on Panel Bench
24”x30”x60”
Multi Layer Risograph Print
11”x 14”
Multi Layer Risograph Print
11”x 14”
Multi Layer Risograph Print
11”x 14”
Multi Layer Risograph Print
11”x 14”
Multi Layer Risograph Print
11”x 17”
Multi Layer Risograph Print
11”x 14”
Multi Layer Risograph Print
11”x 14”
Multi Layer Risograph Print
11”x 14”
Multi Layer Risograph Print
11”x 14”
Sit/Seat considers the central question(s) of what it means to have to sit/ to have a seat considering multiple lenses of access and accessibility. The work encourages viewers to take a seat and view the work that is divided by a chair rail, hung at the ADA compliant hanging height, separating the composition into varying proportions of figural and abstract compositions. The auto-theoretical work considers personal narrative, disability and queer aesthetics/theory while challenging normative spatial conventions through compositional and instillational applications.
Waiting Room is an ongoing instillation of X-Ray illumination boxes, layers of transparent prints, and waiting room chairs. The instillation explores the de/re/uncomposing of the body through the reintroduction of self to the self abstracted atop x-ray boxes. Layers of transparency depicting the margins that once surrounded the “ideal male figure” are impermanently held together sandwiched between metal clasps. With the masculine figure removed the new abstracted and reoriented printed images challenge static definitions of the body pushing back at the permeance of the print and embracing temporality, change, and becoming. Light illuminates a constellation of boxes bringing to attention the many layers opaqued by the reconstruction that proceeds it.
Reassurance is an unbound book of 30 monotypes supported and held together by a medical crutch set to 6’2”. The book parallel to the body is temporal, slowly changing and aging as the pages turn, one page opaquing the previous one till all pages fall, fully reassured by the crutch.
Above: Instillation Unbound Book Supported by a Medical Crutch
Below: 10”x12” monoprint details
Serial Selves is an unbound book and video instillation created on a scanner. The printing press and the scanner presents a relationship where the artist is the first author and audience only divided by a moment of full opacity The book explores self-authorship as it relates to printmaking and photography. The repeated action of arranging and rearranging acknowledges the multiplicity of bodily possibilities striving for maximum potential while accepting failure.
Unbound Book and Video Instillation (Duration 1:10
Blueprints is a series of large-scale woodblock prints on yupo paper created through the collaging and reclamation of inaccessible spaces onto and on top of the body. Taking the form of Blueprints these potential spaces exist in the in between as utopian drafts never physically realized.
Hand Carved Woodblock Print on Yupo Paper
30” x 45”
Hand Carved Woodblock Print on Yupo Paper
30” x 45”
Hand Carved Woodblock Print on Yupo Paper
30” x 45”
Hand Carved Woodblock Print on Yupo Paper
30” x 45”
Hand Carved Woodblock Print on Yupo Paper
30” x 45”
Hand Carved Woodblock Print on Yupo Paper
30” x 45”