Summer

The end of the semester is just about here and I am gearing up to start my internship in New Orleans. I will be at Louisiana Artworks, a facility that supports visual artists in New Orleans. I'll be in, you guessed it, the printshop, where I'll be a monitor, working on marketing projects and developing a visiting artists program.

And I'll be documenting it all here!

Hand-made maps are fascinating, especially when you can sees the little inaccuracies of the hand. This series of maps document how the landscape changes over the seasons, through the overflowing river in spring, a lush summer, fall storm season and sparse winter.

NOLA Map, Spring 2010
Copper Plate Etching/Monotype Combination
22"x30"

This is a giglio, a symbol for a lily that is on everything in Florence, from soccer jerseys to bumper stickers to guide books, basically anything that stays still enough to be printed on. I screen printed it in some bright, youthful colors to represent the hipness of Florence, which has perfected blending old a new.

Giglio 2009
Screen Print on Paper
11"x15"

The Boeuf Gras, meaning in French, “Fatted Ox,” is a traditional symbol of the last meal eaten before entering the sacrificial season of Lent. It is a celebration of the final nights of excess consumption before a period of fasting. In New Orleans, a fiber glass boeuf gras, typically white, posted on a float is lead through the streets in Mardi Gras parades.

New Orleans Boeuf Gras 2010
Linocut on Paper
14"x 30"