I’ll be showing a few recent studio experiments @auarts as part of the Works in Progress symposium this Friday. They’re all works on newsprint, some sewn and layered. They’re not usually work that i’d show but sometimes it’s nice to think with my colleagues about the messy middle. If you’re in Calgary, there are a lot of great panels on Friday: https://in-progress.ca/
Torn, silkscreen on paper
I’m making new prints and wrestling with ideas that have been floating around in my head for awhile though I feel rusty and not quite sure they are doing what I want. But it’s been good to be in the studio again and the only way to get to the work I want to make is to keep making work.
My work was included in the most recent MAPC Journal vol. 36 (Liminal). It features one of my plexiglass works about living in an unmoored, chronically ill body. Lots of great work in this edition of the journal, I am grateful to be included. Thank you to the editors! @midamericaprint #printmaking
I’ve been around a lot less for the past while but for a good reason: I’ve welcomed a daughter this summer. Since she was premature, I’m keeping her away from crowds and can’t attend much so I’m sorry to miss all the art events but this is just a season like any other (and one that I’m enjoying). My printmaker side can appreciate the repetitive nature of newborn life. But where the repetition in the printmaking process grounds my body so that my mind can wander, the repetition of caring for a baby is keeping me present. Time feels both slow and fast. Slow, in that I’m doing the same thing every few hours even into the night. Fast, in that I look at photos from just a few weeks ago and she doesn’t even look like the same baby, she’s grown so much.
I’m trying not to will the future to come faster as I’ve spent so much of my life doing but sit in the now and just enjoy her and who she’s becoming. It was a long journey to get here so I’m trying not to rush it. ❤️
Photo credit: Josie Chu
This is a small postcard sized work for a portfolio titled “On Loss” which will be shown at the next MAPC in the fall. I don’t wish to speak about my own loss on here but the work is about exploring the ways that we can maintain a relationship with a loved one even after they’ve died. ❤️
New print for this round of #communitieswest (featuring my least consistent run of blends ever 🥲). Looking forward to seeing the other prints! #printmaking #silkscreen
I’m in the studio, making some small works, but after a very difficult early spring that has required some time away from everything, I’m not quite sure where I’m going with my practice. I’m trying to give myself the grace of just being and keeping my art brain engaged while not expecting much. It’s hard but I’m telling myself that not every season of life has to be productive. Thank-you to everyone who has shown me grace recently ❤️
The last of my #silkscreen experiments from the summer. Hopefully enough to build on for some momentum through teaching in the fall/winter. Syllabi make for much less interesting insta posts I’m afraid.
