Screenprint.
Life's Labyrinth
Screenprint on paper, 8in x 10in, 2023
Life’s Labyrinth defamiliarizes topographic maps in a way that makes it impossible to use as a topographic map. The overlapping map fragments, nonsensical words, and numbers, and alternatingly transparent and opaque river on top of it all are meant to depict feelings of confusion, indecision, and being lost and unsure about the future, yet also excited.
Death Valley Spring 2022
Screenprints on cardstock, Astrobrights paper, wood, fishing line, 8ft x 7ft 6in overall, 2022
My experience on a class trip to Death Valley in 2022 inspired this installation. Seeing so many landscapes not present on the East Coast, where I'm from, and spending time outdoors with peers and professors after COVID restrictions felt freeing. I remember sitting in the class van, looking out the window, and realizing how the sky encompasses everything. Of course, the sky has depth, but that was the first time I felt like I was in it. The world transformed from 2D to 3D. I wanted to recreate a fraction of that feeling for viewers and for myself to hold onto during a time when I was experiencing a lot of grief.
Disaffection, Dissociation, Discovery
Screenprint on paper, 7in x 10in, 2022
This work was created as part of a collaborative print project. Our prompt was “out of sight, out of mind." I related this to my own life in what I wish was out of sight, out of mind and how things become clearer with distance. My use of an opaque to transparent gradient and the distance and fence between the two figures within the image represent this and a feeling of detachment from oneself.
Shrewd Judgement
Screenprints on Tyvek, wheatpaste, 4ft x 8ft 7in, 2022
Though rats have a special place in my heart, they are not native to Mount Holyoke College's Upper Lake in rural MA. Brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) were introduced to North America between 1750-1755 and now outnumber native species like the American Water Shrew (Sorex palustris). The intensity of invasive species effects on native species differs between locations and other factors; these effects can be extremely adverse (Ex. Alberta, Canada).
Rats are also commonly associated with disease and stowaways on ships. But rats are not alone. Colonists have had the same negative effect on lands they felt entitled to claim. We came on ships, stole, and spread diseases too. Though human, we cannot ignore the harmful contributions many of us have made to the growth/destruction of our environment. "Shrewd Judgement" attempts to show the actions we can no longer ignore.
Sold Out
Screenprint on paper, 10in x 11in, 2022
Sold Out was created as part of a collaborative print project in one of my courses. Our prompt was “out of sight, out of mind." All I could think of at the time was how the things on my mind made it difficult to think and how information overload led me to feel a little bit out of my mind. Hence, I chose to depict the prompt with an image of my head exploding and its contents being "sold out".
how do we do justice to the lives we take?
Screenprint on kozo, hand cut and laser cut, 17ft 6in x 7ft 10in, 2022
This mural was a collaboration between Luca Amador, Lize Brown, Cecilia Field, Etta Gold, Aftan Sethia, Xi Stoddart, Snow Wang, and I. We were inspired by Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, especially the quote, “How do we consume in a way that does justice to the lives we take?”. Conceptually, we wanted to show how humans are part of the environment as well as spread the message that humans should respect their surroundings, not overconsume and engage in reciprocity.