Telephone
In this series from the summer of 2023, I created 300 monoprints over a period of three weeks. Using found and altered stencils sourced from factories, farms, and the home, I explore my family's legacy and its impact on my identity. These stencils relate to the influence of my family's immigrant history and epigenetic factors of illness, health, and well-being. For this work, I purposely chose an expeditious, immediate process, as I was thinking about the pace of conversation and how the materials interacted as if they were part of an intimate exchange in a game of telephone. Each print shifted and changed the meaning ever so slightly. The images formed from the printed stencils and matrices, sometimes combined with chine collé, vinyl, collage, and mixed-media elements, create new conversations that flatten time and space while hopefully expanding possibilities for dialogue.