I work with photographs, textiles, printmaking, text, cyanotype, pyrography, and mixed media. My work deals with the recording and preserving of memories often reviving lost traditions. Recent works explore story telling through mark making, depicting my relationship with a culture that I have been separated from.
In printmaking, and mixed media, I am inspired by photographs. Photographs capture (and preserve) memories that are degraded by time and emotion. Through a photograph we can revisit a place in a way that is second only to physically returning to an actual destination, but of course we can never return to the same moment in time…except in images, memory and emotion.
Growing up in the 80’s we made the switch from paper to plastic, being environmentally friendly, to save the trees (this was reflected in my creation of ‘Audrey’, a wedding dress ensemble made entirely of plastic shopping bags that would have otherwise gone into landfill). I am a product of my 80’s childhood. This was an emotional process I had to work through when I first started burning lithography paper, for pyrography.
I burn the paper in layers. As I burn the top layers, the layers beneath only partially burn. I revisit those underlayers and reburn into them, so they are not wasted. All layers get printed with the cyanotype medium. By preserving the lithograph paper that I print images with, it becomes a component of the work, creating zero waste. I am conscientious about all items being used thoughtfully and becoming components of the final outcome.
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