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I work on paper using painting, drawing, and printmaking to explore the space
between reference and its abstraction. Using deliberately minimal visual language
and mark-making, my work refers to landscape, yet avoids becoming a specific
site. The non-specificity of my landscapes is tangential to issues of diaspora and
displacement —made apparent through the materialization of compression and
linear/non-linear time theories.
The ground the work is situated on, paper, is mobile in and of itself. In this way, the
work is literally grounded in mobility. The temporality and economy of paper's state
of being serves my personal drive and constriction, both literally and theoretically.
By contending with the history of landscape and place, translation and language, my
use of paper in my practice sits comfortably with its reference to the printed word,
as well as diaspora and mobility.
Two moons, 2020. Etching spray paint and mica powder on paper. 8 × 11 in.
Shesh-besh (Unfinished match), 2020. Charcoal on paper. 30 × 20 in.