Summer Connections

Becoming yourself requires a kind of destruction.
 
I create original gelli plate mono prints—hand-pulled papers that are fully mine, deliberately designed and executed. Then I tear them apart. I cut them into pieces. I destroy the original mono prints because staying true to them would mean staying prescribed.
 
This is what collage means to me: the willingness to deconstruct what you've made in order to reconstruct it as something truer, more authentically you. It mirrors the work of growing older – through several stages in life – recognizing the conditioning and teachings you've inherited, owning them, and then choosing to unmake them so you can build a life that isn't prescribed by others but chosen by you.
 
Every piece in this collection carries that commitment. Nothing is borrowed. Every layer comes from papers I designed myself. But more importantly, every composition exists because I was willing to break apart what I'd made in order to create something more true.
 
Double design. Full ownership. Not double the price.

10x10x3 on canvas. Design wraps around sides. Wired to hang.