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Printmaking

An image in the colors yellow, pink, and dark blue. Two hands are holding gaming devices with smiling faces on the screen. The devices are connected by a cable.

:) First Stop (:

Sandwriting is a relief print from linoleum, printed with oil-based ink. It depicts a person marking the ground with chalk in the top part of the composition. The bottom part shows a dynamic underside of the drawing figure, of rocks meeting water and figures climbing and becoming part of the landscape. The blue in this print is a combination of oil-based ink in cobalt blue, prussian blue, pthalo blue, indigo blue, midnight blue, and milori blue.

Sandwriting

Crushed little stars - Relief print on paper, printed with oil-based ink. Depicted is the textured surface of seaside rocks, stacked to produce landforms. Small silhouettes of people rest on the flats of rocks to witness the passing of time marked by water eroding rock.

Crushed Little Stars

Handmade graphic relief print made from linoleum. Content is of a person lying down on their arm with a blanket over her head. The blankets take the form of a mountain landscape. Behind the blanket landscape is a sky gradient of yellow and blue, suggesting a sun set

Away, eyes closed

Black and white print from a copper plate. Grains of rice are in three piles, resembling mountainous islands receding into space. Five large worms emerge from the rice piles, curling throughout the image and between the piles. From the closest pile of rice is a small speech bubble where instead of text, is the silhouette of a dead lowland striped shrew rat.

Fast Present

A handmade relief print from linoleum printed with oil-based gamblin ink on heavy weight Rives BFK paper. The composition is split between an abstracted rice paddy with eyes reflected in the dark of the water, and the other half is of a changing island landscape with sarus cranes.

Cranes

This relief print is a handmade woodcut and laser engraving, printed with oil-based ink on lightweight paper. Each impression is hand burnished. The print marks my experience of 5pm, or 1700 when the sirens would blare on the air force base and we would stop in our tracks, identify the location of the flag, and pledge allegiance.

1700

This is a handmade relief print from linoleum. The blue in this print is a combination of oil-based ink in cobalt blue, prussian blue, pthalo blue, indigo blue, midnight blue, and milori blue. Fish frying, windows, blinds, curtains, swimming, drowning, strangers, peeking through a dark hole

Mabaho

A handmade relief print from linoleum depicting two people facing heavy brush nearby. Overlayed on the brush is are planes resembling accordion folds, with each plane depicting elements of time, water, air, and and land. The blue in this print is a combination of oil-based ink in cobalt blue, prussian blue, pthalo blue, indigo blue, midnight blue, and milori blue.

I'll come visit

A multi-layered handmade relief print from linoleum depicting rice paddies, a graphic timelapse of a volcanic eruption, melting rock, submerged bodies, nipa huts, and water meeting land.

Hold on tight

Combination of two layers of laser-engraved plexi printed with intaglio wiping method, and one pochoir layer of graphite and transparent base. The blue in this print is a combination of oil-based ink in cobalt blue, prussian blue, pthalo blue, indigo blue, midnight blue, and milori blue.

Gathered

All at once, made for the travelling press at Big Ink. Handmade wood cut, printed with a team of volunteers with Big Ink.

All at once

This is a printed impression of a laser-etched plexi plate, printed with the intaglio method. Chine colle with two stripes of paper. Two submerged figures in clouds and vertically stacked landscape.

New people, place

A blue and black screenprint on heavy weight paper. Elements such as chicken heads, people heads, a crate, and headless body of a chicken are arranged in a triangle composition.

Baby Chicks

Island Hopper - A handmade relief print from linoleum, printed with oil-based ink on Rives BFK heavyweight. The vertically stacked landscape illustrates the movement of bodies between islands, water, and air.

Island Hopper

Ano (Look Over There) - A handmade relief print made from linoleum and oil-based gamblin relief ink. Key elements are airplane windows, paper airplanes, islands, eyes, lips that point, and bodies made of water.

Ano (Look over there)

One to three - Relief print from linoleum, printed with black oil-based ink.

One to three

Big Ten Print Exchange - Combination of screen print and relief print from linoleum, printed with oil-based and water-based ink.

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Rock Collecting - Relief print from linoleum, printed with black oil-based ink.

Rock Collecting

Flowering Tribute - Relief print from linoleum, printed with black oil-based ink.

Flowering Tribute

Laser Landscape - Relief print from linoleum, printed with black oil-based ink.

Laser Landscape

Full Sun Flowers - Relief print from two layers of linoleum, printed with red and black oil-based ink.

Full Sun Flowers

Islands - Relief print from linoleum, printed with black oil-based ink.

Islands

Let it sink in - Relief print from linoleum, printed with black oil-based ink.

Let it sink in

Separated by Space - Relief print from linoleum, printed with black oil-based ink.

Separated by space

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