Scold’s Bridle
Decoupage screen print on paper
10 in x 8 in x 8 in
2019
Scold's Bridle with decoupaged screen printed flowers. The Scold's Bridle was an iron muzzle used to humiliate women who were "riotous," "troublesome," or suspected of witchcraft by preventing the wearer from speaking. Sized to my own head. First documented use was in 1567 in Scotland, but similar devices were still being used to punish enslaved persons in 18th century Virginia. Sized to fit the artist’s head, then burned.
Archive Encounter
Screen print, risograph, and holographic foil
11 in x 14 in
2022
Included in the exchange portfolio Finding & Feeling: Encounters in the Archive, organized by Ruben Castillo and Amy Cousins. The exchange invited artists to consider the queer archive, to encounter it and exchange within it. For the portfolio, each artist anonymously submitted an image or document from their personal or research archive and another artist responded to it.
Untitled (Ancient Mosaics)
Photopolymer relief
Seven individual plates, printed randomly in groups of four in an edition of 25
11.5 in x 16.5 in sheet, Installation dimensions variable 2019
Ancient Mosaics is a collection of seven individual photographic relief plates printed in combinations of four to create twenty five unique but connected sheets, which are displayed together as a repeating pattern. Taken by the artist in their ancestral homeland of Sicily, the photographs include fragments unearthed in Castel di Tusa and Villa Romana del Casale, which due to a landslide remained hidden for centuries and where excavation in the mid 20th century unearthed one of the richest, largest, and varied collections of Roman mosaics in the world. By capturing only details of extensive scenes, cutting the plates to geometric shapes, and including areas where pieces have been lost to history, the mosaics are fragmented further before being pieced back together to generate a new collection of remains.
Pettineo
Duotone Risograph
10.5 in x 16.5 in sheet, Installation dimensions variable
2019
HexenHaus
Watercolor monoprint and acrylic on paper
3 panels, 48 in x 80 in each
2019
During the Bramberg Witch trials (1626-1631) between 300 and 900 people were executed and thousands more tortured for witchcraft. The Hexenhaus was prison built specifically to house those under suspicion. The building has been demolished, but the blueprints remain. HexenHaus is three panels of twenty one monoprints based on those blueprints. The separations were made with salt (which is protective) and ink and printed on top of raised acrylic in a pattern based on the alchemical symbol for salt.
Untitled (Santo Stefano)
Screen print on fabric with embossing powder
45 in x 8 ft
2019
Untitled (Muhu Well)
Screen print on paper
12 ft x 4 ft
2016
Protection Mat
sulfur and salt
9 ft x 8 ft
2016
Sulfur and salt – which are both protective and help absorb negative energy – poured through a stencil. Detail, day one, and after rain on day three. After two weeks, the piece had completely disappeared.
Bad Luck to Your Mother
Hand printed relief on mulsin with live palm tree
site specific installation at Anchor Graphics, Columbia College of Chicago
8 ft x 22 ft
2011