BFA, Studio Art (Printmaking and Narrative Forms)
BA, Art History and Criticism, Honors College Degree
Artist Statement
Concrete
Through the thick turmoil of isolation during a global pandemic, my series of prints, Concrete, reflects the desperation to combine and collect memories. I am interested in the insecurities and separateness that have emerged from the Covid pandemic. Public spaces that used to be occupied by many have turned obsolete. I am interested in taking these places devoid of humans yet made for human interaction and pushing them into candy-coated images. A combination of memories constitutes these images, evoking familiar scenarios like eating a bowl of cereal in the morning and entwining that experience with playing on the merry-go-round later that day. The memory is now recalled as a Froot Loop colored round platform.
What does a telephone pole, a merry-go-round, and a bench all have in common? Three of the prints in the series focus on objects designed for interaction in public spaces. The other two prints are office buildings in Milwaukee that would normally be occupied by thousands of people. The windows on these buildings reflect the abyss of the sky, a metaphor for the vacancy of the building. All the images hail to the viewer that something is missing within this environment: people.
