Tropical Relief

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.
 
12x12" gesso cradle. Wired to hang.