Illusion Dweller, Merrakesh, Morocco
Printed collograph on Mulberry on xerox photograph.
Shukran means Thank you. Minfadlik is Please. Afwan means your are welcome. Forca Sieda is Nice to meet you, Riad means a place to stay.
Street Views: Cairo 2009
Photolitho plates, collograph print, xerox, and wood grain printed plate as art object.
This piece was made for a show I was invited to be part of at Alto Gallery in March of 2020 in celebration of MoPrint, called Street Views. It was the last gallery opening I went to before C19 changed the world as we know it.
“Informal Rooftop Dwellers, Hong Kong”
The rise of rooftop communities is heavily linked to the migration history from Chinese Mainland to Hong Kong. With every political move China has made, think - the cultural revolution, there was also a wave of people who left China and migrated to Hong Kong. The increases of people in Hong Kong has lead to a housing shortage and therefore a set of informal settlements on the very tip top of apartment buildings.
I like China, and China Likes Me
Photolithograph of dead drying fish (Macau), phototransparency films of the terracotta army, Xi’An, China.
17 × 12”
Illusion Dwellers and Big Buddahs
Spray paint on Manilla folder, photolitho plates, and hell money.
The Henna: Pre- Marital Promises, India, 2009
Manilla paper, Spray paint, Paper and Onyx Mehndi
17 × 12”
Homeland: An Artifact
My approach in my 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 I experienced in developing countries: (that) practicing resourcefulness can yield an object of interest and cohesion.
In celebration of Mo Print, 2020