prints
Mi Media Naranja, 2023
"Mi Media Naranja" is a Spanish phrase which translates to "my half orange". The idea with this piece is that if you slice an orange into two halves, those are the only two compatible halves to each other. Biologically and physically, any other halves will be slightly off. This idea equates to the idea of "soul mates". As I further explore the symbolism of various fruits in our culture, oranges in my work represent this idea of companionship among other things.
Intaglio Print, 6" x 5", Edition of 6, Stonehenge
Slideshow, 2022
In this series of work, I explored feelings of those who struggle with mental health. Both phrases - "I can't apologize" and "All I can say is sorry" - were borrowed directly from real suicide letters found online. The harrowing, yet slightly vindictive, feeling that if they disappeared that they could not apologize for what that would put loved ones through juxtaposes the apologetic feelings of sorrow that those who struggle with such things have to go through and feel as if they put others through.
Silk Screen Print (Watercolour method), 11" x 9", Edition of 6, BFK Rives
Adam's Apple (Revisited), 2022
"Adam's Apple" (Revisited) is a print which addresses my personal experience with desire and attachment. In Buddhism there exists the Four Noble Truths. The first of these truths is that there is suffering in the world. The second of these truths is that the cause of this suffering is desire and attachment. I paired this concept with the biblical idea of the original sin. here exists in these two religious ideas a cyclical paradox. That is, we desire the sublime object, which leads to suffering, but even once we have obtained or "consumed" the sublime object, we are still not satisfied once again leading to suffering.
"Adam's Apple" (Revisited), 2022, Silk Screen Print, 9" x 11"
Huck, 2023
This piece entitled "Huck" is an intaglio work created as a part of a trade print. The theme for the trade print was western. Like much of my work, it involves abstracted or juxtaposed fruit. A quote from popular western movie "Tombstone". The line is a play on words as an actual huckleberry quotes the movie to the opposite banana. This piece utilizes chine collé and solar plates.
Intaglio Print, 11" x 14", Edition of 17, Stonehenge