Something Like 2D

Siqux I, Siqux II:  H – 36″ W – 26″, 2023: Intaglio, paper
These intaglio prints are examinations of an inside/outside relationship – an electric drill whose external design necessitated significant compromise to the internal workings so as to accommodate the human body.  In Siqux I and II, I emphasize the exterior with a chine collé process to the surface of the print and the interior with elaborate mark-making akin to the complexity of the mechanism. 

Niagara: H – 30″ W – 23″, 2023: Intaglio, paper
This intaglio print is an examination of an inside/outside relationship – an electric ‘massager’ from the 1950s whose external design necessitated significant compromise to the internal workings so as to accommodate the human body.  I emphasize the exterior with a chine collé process to the surface of the print and the interior with elaborate mark-making akin to the complexity of the mechanism. 

A History of the World: H – 40″ W – 22″, 2023: Intaglio, paper
This intaglio print looks at a segment of design history around one function. It illustrates several generations of can openers. Although most of them would be considered obsolete, all of them would still open a can.

Form/Function 1: 22w X 28h X 1.2d (floor polisher), 2019 ink jet print and found materials, digitally and hand drawn / hand colored (ink and acrylic)

Form/Function 2: 22w X 28h X 1.2d (toaster),2019 ink jet print and found materials, digitally and hand drawn / hand colored (ink and acrylic)

Form/Function 3: 22w X 28h X 1.2d (blender), 2019 ink jet print and found materials, digitally and hand drawn / hand colored (ink and acrylic)

We want our rest to be productive and our productivity to be restful. We summon extensions of ourselves – tools of our productivity and organization – with expectations that they will spare us from drudgery or supplement our repose. These works represent recent contemplations of functional objects (and their spaces and interiors) with which I align form/function with leisure/labor.

The Form/Function drawings are documents of a process toggled between digital approaches/prints and analog methods in an attempt to take advantage of each. There are (seemingly) pinned to domestic surface materials that serve as a framing devices and a reference to the space where the objects may have been originally been employed in the home.

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