Gardens, 2020-Present
Gardens, is a series that represents abstract and figurative metaphors of queer protection and nourishment in a garden or nature. My print work has a distinct digital quality that reads as an aged digital program, but I use traditional printmaking tools like the blend roll to create a replica of a digital drawing. Once the print is made, it is activated by the viewers. The facsimile prompts the question: is the image passing? This question reflects on myself and my body, and these prints serve as a metaphor. Like printmaking, my body can reproduce; however, I don't relate to my body in that way at all. Theoretically, my connection to printing is hybrid. I have parts and pieces for reproduction, as does a printing press. Together, this connection is, as Donna Haraway coined, a cyborg and what I consider to be a trans-queer relationship.
