I love printmaking!
Here are some projects I've worked on in the last few years
I created a series of artist books called Movement Series (4 total) which I placed in different free outdoor libraries around my neighbourhood.
Each book took time, energy and thought to be made. However, the act/gesture of this work is not only in creation of the books themselves but a combination of capturing the passage of time, creating a drawings that exists in 3D and making drawings as a symbolic action. I took videos of myself dancing to some tunes as a base for my gestural animation. I drew 24 individual drawings while using my window as a light box which I transformed into a gif. I made that file accessible via a QR code in each book once the reader has flipped through the pages. They can use their phones to see the lady come to life. The act of walking around my neighbourhood creates a 3D line as I move from one community library to the next. I included this line through the form of a map in my books. This serves to not only show the readers where the other artist books are located, but also invites the reader to take on the walk for themselves. Since my recent move to Toronto, I have been wanting to be more involved within my community. Through these community lead libraries, I not only directly engage with people, but I get a chance at better discovering the city through my walks.
Linoleum cut made for Ocad's 2023 Print exchange.
Capitalist Decay out of charcoal, conte and acetate.
For my political perspective I wanted to encapsulate how the structure and foundation of capitalism are inherently fascist, and therefore capitalism is characterized by the process of increasing decay. Capitalism can only flourish at the expense of the working class (sweatshops, underpaid workers, minorities, breaking treaties, etc.), quality of products (cheap materials, single-use plastics, etc.) and the environment (global warming, oil spills, etc.). In fact, flourishing capitalism will ravage at the expense of everything, including its own self- serving system. (Marxists Internet Archive.) That is what I wanted to represent with my businessman at work. I wanted to use under lighting for my drawing to accentuate the eerie and disturbing nature of decaying capitalism. I used acetate as a sort of lens that, once removed, exposes capitalism for what it really is.
Respect indigenous Sovereignty and Death to all Pipelines are collages turned into posters.
