works on paper
These prints were created during a week-long residency at in-cahoots residency in Petaluma, CA. At the time, I was thinking a lot about my great-grandmother who was a midwife in the Pale of Settlement and reading a book called Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering Herbal Traditions by Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel. I took a walk on a desert mountain and was taking pictures of brambles. When I look at my camera roll, there a lot of pictures of plants from places I have traveled. I take these pictures and go back to them when I am thinking about new prints. I simplify the forms and use those to create images.
This image of the spirograph circle comes up in my work often. These abstract prints are studies in shapes, color, and line texture.
Working through my dad’s illness got me thinking about brain function as it relates to neurological diseases. This circle image comes from my love of the spirograph. I do enjoy how the circles overlap with each other creating different forms that you might not see at first. The layering of inside and outside noise with lines that sometimes are contained and most times fleeting.
