Artist Statement
I am inspired by the economics of the objects and materials that build our everyday lives, evaluating them as totems and commodities. I draw chairs, cabinets, teacups, and dining tables; I research cotton, raw pigments, colors, food, and plants. I use domestic objects as a cultural lens to explore relationships: personal and socio-political. I dissect all this and the ongoing process of colonialism as I consider labor, class divisions, and economic struggles. Printmaking and multiples allow me to reference the reiteration of objects and ideas in our culture. I need to make multiples of things. My recent exhibitions can have over 1500 individual pieces that came together into larger works. I like to push printmaking–pulling the prints from the wall and allowing them to drip on the floor and flow like waves. Stacking them, layering them. I think of prints as my material, and I see the multiple acting as content.