Prints & collage

found MATERIALS collage

2023, collage | These whimsical collages use maps, postcards, found photos and printmaking techniques to create portraits of imagined geographies, family relations, and alternative realities.

American Remains

Bahá'i Chaparral

The Mormons built their promised land in the Utah desert. What would a master-planned mid-century Bahá'i community in the high desert look like?

Developer

Let's Ride, Ladies

With Laura Bush as their compass, a group of retired Dallas ladies take life head-on and cruise the Caribbean one last time.

Antipodean Dream

Spain and New Zealand are antipodes: points on the opposite side of the world from each other. What if they combined cultures?

Firth of Fourth of July

Secret operation “Firth of Forth of July”—the planned Scottish invasion of the United States—was recently exposed by the CIA.

Life, Stranded

In the North Frisian islands of Denmark and Germany, the water is so low that railroads run along the muddy seabed and connect islands to land. This map imagines an isolated mysterious life on islands like these.

Swirl

Sky Islands

New London

The British are coming, but this time we’re the ones laughing.

UFO

Hijo de la Tela

Zeppelin

New Edition

State house

2022, photo collage | Using the Rhode Island State House building as a focal point, the work synthesizes two distinct viewpoints—eye-level and aerial—to construct a kaleidoscopic landscape. Each hexagon unit is a composite panorama of photos taken in six directions (at 60 degree intervals) from a particular location on the State House grounds. The units are arranged spatially according to their actual location in relation to the building.

MORAINE

2022, collagraph and collage | Moraine is a series of fictional landscapes inspired by the geologic formations created by glacial till, known as moraine. The forms were made following topographic lines from US Geological Survey maps of New England. Collagraph is a type of printmaking technique using custom-shaped plates to create a stamp-like effect. As a result, forms are recurring throughout the series.

ÁGUAS DE MARÇO

2022, trace monotype | “A stick, a stone, it’s the end of the road. It’s the rest of a stump, it’s a little alone.” So begins the famous bossa nova standard “Waters of March” (Águas de Março) composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim in 1972. The song is an ode to the rainy season that happens in the Brazilian summer in March. In this series of prints, the lyrics are reinterpreted through images featuring the melting snows of March in Providence, Rhode Island.

A Stick

A Stone

The End of the Road

The Rest of a Stump

A Little Alone

A Knot in the Wood

A Profound Mystery

The Foot, the Ground

And the Riverbank Talks

HOWDY HIMALAYAS

2021, acrylic and ink on road map | This piece juxtaposes a linguistic map of the northern Indian subcontinent and western Tibet atop an unlikely canvas: a road map of Texas. But there is some logic here. Each point in Texas corresponds to a point on the opposite side of the world (India/Tibet), exactly 180 degrees apart on the same latitude. Landmarks from both regions are included, leading to some outlandish (or strikingly suiting) intersections. Read more about the project here.

SIDING SERIES

2017-2019, corrugated cardboard, acrylic and watercolor | A collection of wood siding-clad buildings in Hancock County, Maine and Nova Scotia. Backgrounds feature a map of the nearby landscape.

HIGHWAYMAN

2022, monotype | Highwayman is a tribute to the song of the same name, released in 1985 by the country supergroup The Highwaymen, consisting of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. The song tells of the lives and deaths of three incarnations of the same soul throughout time, as an English highway robber, a sailor on the high seas, and a Hoover Dam construction worker. Each incarnation is brought to life in this series, complete with a “common thread,” a rope connecting the pieces that is also implicated in the lyrical deaths of each of the three characters (hanging, rigging collapse, slip and fall).