Signs of Affection
7x9" each
Risograph Prints

Displays of Affection sources the visual elements of 19th-century Valentines designed by Esther Howland. The project uses a web tool to repurpose the collection’s clichéd romantic symbols to generate valentines in new and varied recombinations.

Toxic Love
9x12"
art book

Toxic Love is a paper, lasercut, and silkscreen-printed art book that explores the graphic forms of poisonous flowers, and the hurtful language of toxic love. 

Playing Pretend
Video short

Playing Pretend is a video short which is part of an ongoing exploration into dollhouses, scale, identity, and domestic space.

American Idiom
3-D rendered animation

Focusing on the inheritance of both the beauty and the toxicity of silver production, American Idiom, the animation, tells a story through idioms about silver. 

Framing the Past
Lasercut Wood panels

I created illustrator-based vector replications of the frames from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Georges Hoentschel collection, and used these to laser cut and engrave a set of representative wooden panels – pulling them forward and out of the archive into our flattened digital existence.

Case Study
Letterpress prints 

I found myself fascinated by the typographic fragments embedded within a collection of miniature antiques from my Grandmother. I included these fragments in a suite of letterpress prints, in an attempt to amplify the relationship between text and image, the mystery that the correlation presents.

Morning Glory
22x30"
5-color Screenprint

Morning Glory is a 22x30” single-edition screenprint formally inspired by turn of the century American book cover designs. It depicts a Florida-native plant with a tenacious sort of beauty. It's a reminder that not all decoration is feeble or superfluous.