Lift
Palm, partial (detail)
i continue fascinated with the process of fingerprinting; pulling information out of invisibility with powdered pigment, brush, and tape. the way that fingerprints function as evidence, as a means of constructing narrative. the unidentified subject touched this. here. and here. the ways in which the information is partial, incomplete, the ways in which fingerprints stand in for identity.
all images: powdered graphite and tape on paper, 2017
These images are part of the work I’m doing for my MFA. I’m using the tools of forensic investigators (powdered pigment and brushes) to first create drawings using my fingerprints, then pull the images up via the fingerprint dusting method. These drawings reference unsolved disappearances of women in the United States; each one is based on an actual case file.
Update: These images will be part of “Deadly Intentions” at Studio 659, from 9/24/17 through 11/11/17.
On October 31, 1589, Peter Stubbe was executed by breaking on the wheel for the crime of Lycanthropy. According to a 1590 pamphlet published in London, Stubbe was guilty of cannibalism, murder, and the terrifying/delightful crime of ‘werewolfery.’
I’m thinking lately about chimerism, the thin barriers between the human/the animal, and the fine line of normativity that holds hunger at bay in the face of a barely-suppressed ferality.
Uptown Underground, 1.20.17
Powdered graphite and acrylic on paper, 2006. Sold as part of a legal defense fundraising effort in support of the West Memphis Three.
In May 2015, I accompanied a group of my students on a study-abroad trip to Italy. The sketches below are the result of that trip.
Dante, Santa Croce, Florence
Mezquita, Cordoba
Ceres, Boboli Gardens, Florence
Museo del Prado
Mysterious sphinx, Segovia
El Greco, Toledo
Hopper, Museo del Thyssen
Monument to Lorca, Madrid
Toledo cathedral
