Tag: Relief
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A Preemie’s First Viral Load
Linocut, collagraph, and pochoir; 14″x11″; 2020 Moneypit, Why Choose?, and Preemie’s… employ multiple print disciplines to show the complexities of bringing another consumer onto an already overcrowded planet. My sons act as stand-ins for humanity’s impulsive nature in many images in my portfolio.
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History is Left Beneath, Not Behind
Woodcut on repurposed fabric, with appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching; Approximately 12’x7′; 2017 Composed primarily from upcycled proofs from previous print projects, this piece shows my son Levee pulling up earth and exposing the fossil record along with the detritus that will be humanity’s lasting legacy on the planet.
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Background Noise Project
Four laser-engraved linocut blocks—of landfill, lumber, rock strata, and prairie grasses—from hand-drawn positives, mounted on hand constructed paperboard rollers. Each roller drum is 24” long, with a 7” circumference.2018 The resulting image when the rollers are printed is a continuous, progressively lighter impression to reference how a landscape, no matter how arresting or alarming, quickly…
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Leveled
Screenprint and laser-engraved linocut on repurposed fabric with appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching; 18″x50″; 2018 Leveled, Prospect , …Better Angels, and KIMBY employ matrices from previous projects, as well as strata and landfill impressions from the Background Noise Project, to address our collective insatiable desire to “Keep up with the Joneses”.
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Prospect
Woodcut, screenprint, and laser engraved linocut on repurposed fabric with appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching; 74″x29″; 2018 Leveled, Prospect , …Better Angels, and KIMBY employ matrices from previous projects, as well as strata and landfill impressions from the Background Noise Project, to address our collective insatiable desire to “Keep up with the Joneses”.
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Wrestling with Our Better Angels
Woodcut, screenprint, and laser engraved linocut on repurposed fabric with appliqué and reverse appliqué stitching; 8’x8′; 2019 Like many of the examples presented herethis piece addresses the unitended consequences of unchecked consumption. The child wrestles with a polluted, indulgent version of himself, made from the “ghost”impressions from the large portrait woodcut.
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KIMBY (Knot In My Backyard)
KIMBY (Knot In My Backyard); Screenprint and laser engraved linocut on repurposed fabric, crochet, and appliqué & reverse appliqué stitching; 56″x48″; 2023 The theme of a covertly interconnected global neighborhood returns in this piece as crochet roots writhe and couple my home with those of my neighbors. The bright colors and loud patterns, like in…
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(w)rest
Installation view at Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, TX (with Hannah Sanders); Crocheted repurposed fabric, woodcut, appliqué stitching, free hand machine embroidery, and snaps; 10’x13′; 2019 Spill, Refuse, and (w)rest are from a series of collaborative fibers-based installations with my partner. The series uses craft and humor to investigate notions of domesticity as we…