P R I N T M A K I N G
Luck of the Fool (2023)
A print completed at one of my co-ops. A gratitude for the life I have had and exhaustion for the life I have lived. Luck as random to me as a pool game, a strategic game that I never can get but at least I win sometimes.
Clown Me (2023, left). Clown Boy (2021 right).
A clown version of myself next to my first screen print. I wanted to show the evolution of my work with a more modern recreation.
Crossing (2022-)
The dichotomy between the ones who got out and the ones who didn't. There is a guilt in getting out and turning around to see not everyone can cross that road.
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Spill Your Guts (2022)
This was my first lithograph, made on stone. I had felt that there was so much information piling in my head and there are times when you want to shout out the things you know but for one reason or another you know you can't and it makes you feel as though you are going to burst. I am someone who loves to share and will tell anyone anything and everything about myself, so in moments where I am unable to communicate with people or share something it feels as tho I am being consumed by it and am brimming at the edges.
Nasty Bois R' Us (2023)
Lino cut off nasty bois pushing and shoving in a space. Rainbow roll edition provided.
Man Eater (2022)
Influenced by Japanese Yokai art and tapestries, applied to the term "Man Eater".
This Guy (2023, left) Sad Boi (2023, right)
This guy, I mean get a load of him, and a sad boy.
A Reflection (2022)
Looking at my younger self, fearful for the trauma she has yet to endure and the realization that I will never be able to go back to that innocence. A release of blame and a need to protect my younger self. It takes a weight off to remember how young you once were and you didn’t deserve anything that has happened. The smiley faces represent no need to confine feelings of the past to one feeling, Those feelings can distort and be ever changing, or everything at once.
Reality (2022)
This piece goes with A Reflection, instead of focusing on the inner child and how the inner child lives within us, this piece is contrasting my outward appearance against my inner appearance. a layered composition showing there is still a battle between the person we are and the person we display, the red figure being a true representation of myself, desperate for relation but unable to receive. The lines above the figures were embroidered for each print.
My Tools (2022, right) Did I Misstep? (2022, left)
These are both lithographs, the first being a gorey image of all our "tools" ran through a pike. The second print is based around a true even where my two dogs ripped a possum in half, the piece is looking at what fear the possum must have felt, not having known jumping onto my porch was such a danger zone. Speaking on how this world cruelty often has no rhyme or reason to it.
I'm A Good Boy (2022)
Lithograph of a clown, he has a face all mothers could love.
Consumption (2021)
What started as a random sketch in my notebook became a turning point for my artwork that has made its way into my print work as well. I call these faces the "Nasty Bois", I think of them often as representations of how I perceive people, people have so much complexity and are amalgamations of traumas and experiences wrapped in skin, and if we carried everything we have endured and all our feelings we would look much different then we do now. Consumption displays the feelings of breaking down when being overwhelmed in all categories.
Sunny Daze (2021)
Experimenting with watercolor prints, I thought it would be an interesting way to give the piece some color. I added clouds to make the piece take up some visual space and thought the old school cartoon style would be interesting to see in watercolor.
Clown's Celebration (2021)
A trade print to celebrate the end of a successful semester. For Clown's Celebration I added transparent base to the inks to give a transparent balloon effect.