Dislocations is an ongoing investigation into the varied individual reactions to current social and environmental upheavals. The ongoing and unresolved depletion of the Louisiana Gulf serves as the setting for the figures, whose coping mechanisms when facing such disaster, flow from overwhelmed to complacent and back again. The prints examine different ways with which some use indifference or disassociation to pacify themselves and others remain impervious to imminent threats. The forces ripping away the landscape mirror the many societal disruptions that have the capacity to leave even the most active among us feeling powerless.
Images of the landscape were done using the process of reductive relief. Sometimes called a “suicide print”, this technique creates an image by destruction. The block is cut away more after each layer is printed and its end condition offers no evidence or opportunity to create the image again. Porcelain slabs were pressed into the printing matrix at various stages of the printing process and offer a permanent record of the now-destroyed physical block. The work is not intended to deliver an authoritative critique of self-preservation through disassociation. It is meant to encourage self-reflection and open a dialogue about facing such a seemingly unmovable system without becoming emotionally numbed.
Come on In, The Water's Fine, reductive relief and silkscreen, 11in x 14in, 2019
The Lady of Chalmette, reductive relief, silkscreen and laser engraving, 18in X 14in, 2019
"I can't even listen to NPR anymore." silkscreen and reductive relief, 12in. x 12in., 2019
"I've already spent enough emotion on it." silkscreen and reductive relief, 12in. x 12in., 2019
"Can we just change the subject?" silkscreen and reductive relief, 12in. x 12in., 2019
Fiddlin' I, mixed media, 30in x 19in, 2018
Fiddlin' II, mixed media, 30in x 22in, 2013
Fiddlin' III, mixed media, 30in x 19in, 2018
Drink it Down to Keep from Drowning (gallery view), reductive relief and silkscreen with handcut paper, 25in x 18in., 2019
Women in Wading II, reductive relief and silkscreen, 14in x 11in, 2017
Women in Wading I, reductive relief and silkscreen, 12in x 12in, 2016
Thunder at the Picnic, reductive relief and silkscreen, 20in x 14in, 2018
Trickle Down Ecology, reductive relief and intaglio, 10in x 8in, 2018
Dislocations Gallery View
Dislocations, relief printed porcelain, 6– 7in x 4.5in, 2019
Dislocations (detail) relief printed porcelain, 7in x 4.5in, 2019
Dislocations (detail) relief printed porcelain, 7in x 4.5in, 2019
Dislocations II (gallery view) relief printed porcelain, various sizes, 2019
Dislocations II (detail) relief printed porcelain, 2019
Dislocations III (gallery view) relief printed porcelain, 5– 6in x 6in, 2019
Dislocations III (detail) relief printed porcelain, 6in x 6in, 2019
Tangled Up in Blue, silkscreen, 14in x 11in, 2018
Meandering, reductive relief and silkscreen with chine-colle, 10in x 8in, 2017
Land/Loss, silkscreen, 5.5in x 5.5in, 2017
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