Artist Bio & Statement

I believe that printmaking, in many ways, seeks to carry on the tradition of both art and ideal in that it makes the works reproducible for the artist as well as the art and the message easily accessible to the people. I was once interested in painting, but realized that often only one person would be able to appreciate the message conveyed upon my canvas, and that this person would almost certainly belong to a specific income-bracket. Within printmaking, I work to challenge the neo-traditions of processes that have worked to entrench the medium within the art-market system. An example is editioning. By leaving my prints uneditioned they can reject an assessed-scarcity value that would be placed upon them by such markets. I enjoy using printmaking as my favored medium specifically because I am able to produce works about social, political, and ecological issues that are easily available to most peoples who may desire, or benefit from them. I have also begun to create and sell prints with the intent being that a portion of the proceeds go directly to specific groups (Artsakh Relocation Project, the Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project, the Center for the Study and Preservation of Palestine, Farm-to-Prison, political prisoners, mutual aid projects, and more). This has been a long-standing idea and practice in the history of printmaking that I seek to carry on.