Art for sale
Every artwork you see here was created by me. Most are woodcuts or vitreographs (using a glass plate as the matrix). A few are screen prints. To make the majority of these works, I took a flat block of wood and carved away a little. Then I carefully mixed the first layer’s colored ink and rolled it onto the block with a brayer. Next, I transferred the ink to paper with a hand-cranked press that applied even pressure. For the reduction woodcuts, I then I carved away a little more and repeated the process until I felt the print was complete. Each print is an original impression in an edition I have hand-pulled, with each piece of paper passing through the press anywhere from 6 - 8 times.
Printed like tattoos on skin, symbols that represent my mixed race heritage, stories from my childhood, the Pacific Northwest, and Queer Culture, cover my hand-pulled woodblock prints. With this storytelling, I seek to remove the passive acceptance of accessible exoticism and redefine being a mixed race woman who is white-adjacent. I seek to widen the viewfinder for others to include my life’s intersections of gender, race, and sexuality.
