Accretion, 2024-ongoing, 8x10” charcoal dust, graphite, and olive oil on found paper
I had my first mammogram at 33. I learned that labor, weight, and pressure are unavoidable, especially when it comes to care and intimacy. And that freedom of movement exists through this weight. Accretion was born of this commitment to the labor of intimacy and continued investigation of the imprint, and is growing into an exploration of the relationship between the body and the cosmos. How is the body both trace of and blueprint for the universe?
These laborious, ritual choreographies of printmaking are a performance study of knowledge production, and the resultant traces and imprints document this knowing, as well as the shifting, entangled relationships that produce it.