Tuesday, September 29, 2009

New prints

Small Prints, Etchings, Le Petit Prints series



Some new etchings with aquatint and hand coloring


Saturday, September 19, 2009

Family Affair

My work tends to reflect the undeniably present social contexts in my personal history. At the crux of the social contexts present in my life is the social relationship of the family, whose influence has been one that is undeniable and sturdy. This series of work focuses on the home as the setting for my personal narratives of familial interactions.







The home is a forum for the family as a political, educational, and reproductive body that either consciously or unconsciously transmits crucial information onto its members. Taking the form of a sewn grid, the pieces are constructed by hand out of found household fabrics and a waxy protective layer to simulate the process by which families create and protect their products. I want describe those transactions as, at once, systematic and irregular.











Family Affair
Found household fabrics, wax
54"x54"
2009


Printstallation

Installation work at Purdue.

Place of Origin
Used Household fabrics, beeswax, sticks
9'x8'
2009

My work examines the notion of beginnings. This "house" is a short story about my family—its interactions, multiplicities, reciprocities, similarities, differences, tensions, connections, structures, functions, and dysfunctions—and its beginnings, which take place in the home. Recognizing the crucial role of multiples as sources in planning, collecting, molding, expanding, shrinking, constructing, and deconstructing, this family story relates the outcome of endeavors to their beginnings.