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"i've got you, you've got me too" 2024
a four layer silkscreen print dedicated to my mom. the theme for this project was inner child/childhood nostalgia, and when i think back, the 19 (almost 20) years i’ve spent on this planet have been full of constant motion. constant change. but all that really comes to mind is the one person, one thing that has remained constant throughout all of the change in my life. my mom. the strongest person i know. the image consists of her hands, imposed on top of an email that she sent her mother in june 2006, a picture of my grandmother and i napping together. my mom has been the most loving, open, caring and supportive person throughout my entire life, and i don’t know what i would do without her. i used three layers of transparent pink, yellow, and blue to create the skin tone as well as mix in the background to add the most subtle color to the florals in the sheets, and then hand crocheted all of the borders with a yarn she picked out that happened to perfectly match the color scheme, and she hadn’t even seen the piece! anyways, my mom is the coolest and the kindest and has such a beautiful loving soul and i’m so so incredibly proud to have been raised by her and to call her my ma.

'are we there yet?' 2024
a five layer reduction/linocut print about growing up in west virginia and about going home and about the passage of time
(all family photos or my photos of family gatherings and small moments along the way)

"people like us" 2024 (digital)
this piece was created as a submission for the You're Not Seeing Things 'Pride as Protest' campaign. It was displayed at Wheeeling, WV Pride, along with this caption:

"With this piece I am addressing the history of oppression against gender nonconforming individuals. As a gender nonconforming lesbian myself, I formed this piece around my own identity- my experience with trying to convey a non-traditional identity and my experience with learning to come to terms with myself and the way I took up space in this world. For so long, these in-between identities have existed and we have been stared at, been forced into neat boxes with little labels but never allowed to exist so publicly and be seen with love and take up the space we deserve. I chose to use a passage from the very beginning of the book Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg-this book was a really pivotal piece for me in discovering my own identity, and I just knew I had to incorporate it. The passage is taken from the first page of the book, from the perspective of a gender nonconforming butch lesbian. "She's looking at me but she doesn't see me. Then she finally said how she hates this society for what it's done to 'women like me' who hate themselves so much they have to look and act like men. I felt myself getting flushed and my face twitched a little and I started telling her, all cool and calm, about how women like me existed since the dawn of time, before there was oppression, and how those societies respected them, and she got her very interested expression on and besides it was time to leave."

'a detailed map of teen joy' 2023
18"x24"
ballpoint pen on paper. all made up of real people, real conversations, real events.

untitled piece about running away. 2023
piece measures roughly 18"x18,"
silkscreen on fabric with a wodden dowel allowing it to be hung as a tapestry.