(this page is currently under construction) text / image works Reading resides at the intersection of the personal and the social. As an artist who is also a poet, this intersection and the physicality of books and pages have long interested me. My works-on-paper interrogate the power of the page and the book by expressing, visually, the constructed nature of knowledge as well as the tensions between dominant historical narratives and personal/communal narratives often at the brink of erasure. Usually small, usually including text—old book pages, reproductions of historical documents, hand-written notes—my invented book pages, books, and sculpture re-enact or re-present the inevitable exclusions in authoring, documenting, and storytelling. The ruptures or places where the dominant narrative breaks down are made visual through acts of stapling, sewing, layering, peeling back, taping, and writing by hand. Attempts at identifying erasure are made by taking away integral book elements as well as elements that stabilize the experience of reading such as margins, clear typesetting, unobstructed words. By using multiple processes including photography, photocopying, printing, scanning, collaging, and re-printing, I attempt to re-create the visual markers we look for in something historical, that of signs of wear and tear, personal use, and distress. View artist's resume here. |







