current investigations in printing methods using ink made of natural dyes as a means of approaching non-toxic printmaking in a way that is unique to non-toxic media.
2019
"It Should Be Familiar" is an ongoing project to build and continuously revisit a fount of intaglio plates. As the plates collect their own “memories”—they get scratched up and flattened, distorting the original etch—the context, meaning, and means of the printing will change. The plates are treated like a dynamic language that shifts with time. The ink, brazilwood with kakishibu tannin both reacts to metal of the plate and darkens with exposure to UV light.
20” x 27” (box)
9.5” x 18” (prints)
2019
copper and steel plates inlaid in overbeaten abaca paper; logwood dye
An installation investigating the pursuit of memories and escapism through objects, Plasma cut plates made of steel were embedded in between two freshly formed sheets of overbeaten abaca paper dyed with various amounts of logwood.
2’ x 5’
2019
copper and steel plates inlaid in overbeaten abaca paper; logwood dye
Sculptures investigating the repurposing of old printmaking matrices. Inked etching plates made of steel and copper were embedded in between two freshly formed sheets of overbeaten abaca paper and naturally dyed.
12” x 16”
2018
shaped plate etchings printed with logwood; chine-colle
Shaped etching prints mapping invisible narratives. Inspired by mountain forms, Chinese and English character fragments, and orienteering map markers.
10” x 27”
2017
artist’s book; letterpress printed kozo with inlays
An artist book collecting narratives about invisibility through generations of immigration with recurring references to my father's work as a Professor of Meteorology studying snowflakes while based in Florida (where it does not snow). Each page consists of pockets made of transparent Chinese mulberry paper containing loose pieces of dark blue paper. The text is printed in low contrast to the mulberry paper, so only areas where the dark blue paper has incidentally fallen are easily readable.
6” x 6”
2015
Poem by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Translated by Paul Muldoon.
letterpress; collagraph
9” x 12”
2017
artist’s book; ghost monoprints
An artist book about the experience of mental isolation during episodes of depersonalization. A figure performing everyday tasks was painted onto a block of wood with gouache and printed onto a damped sheet of paper. The same block was continuously painted on and printed, resulting in each subsequent print to have the ghosts of the previous paintings.
5” x 5”