I prep, align, and print. I burnish, cut, and fold. Repetition and obsession define my process, all of my works being meticulously crafted with lengthy assembly and preparation required. Through this careful execution, identical forms are created. The regularity of my work ties into the blanketed landscape, the uniformity, the conformity I am trying to convey. In my works I attempt to challenge the convention of society that places individuals in boxes or that drives them to build walls around themselves.
Housing Constructions explores the community that created the standard for American suburbia: Levittown. The construction of the mass-produced development, Levittown, provided veterans with jobs, a community, and lodging in a post-war world. Housing promise, this development seemed to have all the answers. Exclusionary practices and repressive terms though, woven into the fibers of the original leases and home owner’s guides, turned the flimsy walls into iron divisions within society. What was thought to be the American lifestyle, the projected 1950s American dream, settled into a distorted collage of Cape Cods and laundry lines.
Paper constructions emphasize the flimsy structural nature of the buildings made to divide, isolate, and oppress. Shaped by rules and regulations and filled with preconceptions, the definition of house and home changes. I hope with my printed works to highlight the constructs of society that have been built by and forced upon individuals.
Housing Constructions explores the community that created the standard for American suburbia: Levittown. The construction of the mass-produced development, Levittown, provided veterans with jobs, a community, and lodging in a post-war world. Housing promise, this development seemed to have all the answers. Exclusionary practices and repressive terms though, woven into the fibers of the original leases and home owner’s guides, turned the flimsy walls into iron divisions within society. What was thought to be the American lifestyle, the projected 1950s American dream, settled into a distorted collage of Cape Cods and laundry lines.
Paper constructions emphasize the flimsy structural nature of the buildings made to divide, isolate, and oppress. Shaped by rules and regulations and filled with preconceptions, the definition of house and home changes. I hope with my printed works to highlight the constructs of society that have been built by and forced upon individuals.