Transference and Consumption: Intersectionality in Space

This process of printmaking parallels the transfer of meaning that art makes possible. In this installation viewers are invited to move through a tryptic-space with a central monumental wall, and two surrounding walls. My work centers on printmaking-mixed media—combining my foundational printmaking practices with various supportive media that create cohesive pieces which depict various gestured “scapes.” Printmaking involves the pressure of a matrix that transfers an image onto a substrate which can be consumed by viewers. Matrix as world–encompassing culture and environment–impresses itself onto me, and I consume what is given to me. I am the substrate–a receptive surface–intersecting community and self, reflecting and transferring my perspectives into art. This intersection of matrix and substrate anchors my exploration of how narrative, trauma, kinship, and knowledge transfer across landscapes of generations, geographies, and media. Each of the pieces in this installation offers another perspective on the intersections of matrices and substrates. My process involves what I call “versioning the ancestor”--storytelling that allows works to evolve into new iterations, each translation shifting imagery and media while preserving spirit. My matrices–wood and linoleum–are carved as my life has been; by lands and stretching from the Yukon to Ann Arbor, by ancestral relationships, and by traditions woven from past into future. These matrices hold the marks of my heritage and diaspora existence, creating a space–or scape–that exists in cultural hybridity.