Cohabitation

Below are a series of prints based upon banal human interactions with non-human people and their larger environments. Each work has a specific associated story. These exist as prints in the world in an attempt to make a more egalitarian image.

I Just Want to Go Home

This is an in-progress Linoleum block for a future small book and zine on the topic of what is in the soil under and around your home. The images are a progression forward in time (It will be backwards when printed) of the history of the land upon which my childhood home stands. the row-homes disappear with the history of the site making its way to the surface. The images are based on a combination of census records, maps (and propaganda) created by John Smith, land deeds, first hand testimony, and indigenous scholarship (also in progress) on this area of the Chesapeake Bay. The writing for this work is in progress and a bibliography with the incredible research of other scholars will be listed here in the beginning of August 2021.

We Love You, Arthropod

Enthralled with the number of prairie insects taking up residence in my studio building, and heartbroken by peers spraying raid on them, I created these relief print funerary wreaths to be wheat-pasted in every location where I would find a deceased arthropod. After not being able to stop my peers from killing insects, I made their deceased bodies part of these art installations. Each reductive relief wreath is 11in x 14in and printed in 2018 in an edition of 75 to be wheat pasted in public spaces. They may be reprinted as small stickers for quick and surreptitious installation in other public places.