Gardens, 2020-Present
Gardens, represents abstract and figurative metaphors of queer protection and nourishment in a garden or nature inspired setting. This print work has a distinct digital quality that resembles an aged digital program– I use traditional printmaking tools like a brayer to replicate 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 is often a reflections on my body and community, and these prints serve as a metaphor. Like printmaking, my body can reproduce; however, I don't relate to my body in that way. 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.
