Homeland: An Artifact
Lithographs, Printmaking Plates, Mixed Media on Handmade
Kozo
28 x 46”
Ten years ago my partner and I put our belongings into storage and traveled via backpack through parts of Northern Africa and South East Asia for a year. I am revisiting the printmaking plates used to make a unique set 16 multi process prints about this travel experience. The plates yielded an edition of photolithographs,collographs,wood relief prints,and monoprints. The solo show was called Place: A Travel Memoir. The plates have become art objects now; artifacts used to build an art piece, and cannot be printed again. They construct a new narrative, addressing how we perceive home, identity, belonging, and how our self is defined by place.
Homeland Series
2020
Homeland: An Artifact (Detail)
Lithographs, Printmaking Plates, Mixed Media on Handmade
Kozo
28 x 46”
My approach in studio practice has always been experimental, and the process I use depends on what my current interests are, and what material I have available to me at any given time. In Homeland, I am referencing hand work, slowness in creating art, recycling, upcycling, using what one has in the studio, rather than consuming, and adopting the general way of life we experienced in developing countries: (that) practicing resourcefulness in tandem with mindfulness can yield an object of strength and beauty.
Homeland Series
2020
Cairo: Street Views
Lithograph, Inked Plates, Mixed Media on Relief plate
38 x 16”
Illusion Dweller
Mixed Media
15 x 8”
Snowflake
Lithograph, Mixed Media
16 x 14”
Of These, Hope
Relief Print, Mixed Media
15 x 8”
Kowloon
Lithograph, Mixed Media
16 x 14”
Double Happiness
Polyester Plate Lithography
15 x 8”
Illusion Dweller: Fez
Mixed Media, Hand Cut Collograph on Mulberry
8 x 6”
Black Sheep
Woodcut Print, Mixed Media
16 x 14”, d*
Offering
Mixed Media
13 x 8”
Good Health and Prosperity
Mixed Media
13 x 8”