Abacus, 2024, 24” x 96” x 16”, steel, plastic mixing tub, milkweed, pine, cotton string, wax
Abacus, 2025, detail view
Untitled (text), 2022, concrete, pine frame, 15” x 11” x 1.5”
This print was made from a page from The Home Planet, with text in both latin and cyrillic alphabets that relate in English and Russian the awe-struck testimonies of astronauts seeing Earth for the first time from space. Published in 1988, during the late Cold War (and the year I was born), it is a remarkable artifact as a contemporaneous counter-narrative during the Cold War space race ideology.
This piece was made shortly after the end of the (first) Trump presidency, when many Cold War narratives reemerged and morphed into new mythologies..
This print was made not from the transfer of ink to the concrete - no material was deposited. The page’s printed pattern of various inks and glosses affected the thermal and moisture distribution during the concrete’s setting process, leaving its mark.
Untitled (moonlanding), 2022, concrete, pine frame, 15” x 11” x 1.5”
Papa lock (migration), 2022, steel, resin, milkweed, 12” x 24” x 22”