I am printmaker, ceramicist, builder, and jail art instructor. My training includes an on-going apprenticeship with Mark Shapiro at Stonepool Pottery, summer study at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and residential construction. I initiated and facilitate a weekly 2D arts course at the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and teach an annual ceramics course at the jail. I have shown prints locally in Western Massachusetts. I graduated from Macalester College in May 2015 with a degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics and minors in Physics and Biology.
Through my work I make an argument for a critical, non-reformist consideration of the socio-economic tragedy of modernity, capitalism, and (neo)liberalism. The work asserts a common solution, re-conceptualizing security, risk, fear, liability, and death as departure points for collective action and reconciliation. Inherent in this solution is the reaffirmation, thematically and stylistically, of artists (specifically printmakers) who documented the social struggles, suffering, and persecution of their times. For me, the act of committing these narratives to paper is a recognition of the power of entering objects that bare witness to the trauma of capitalism into the historical record. The prints in Rewriting the Master Narrative form part of an on-going series entitled “Self Care: Life Inside the Empire.”