Mixed Tales of Folklore V

Process: The print also exploring time and contemporary printmaking. The work investigates the relationship between the hierarchy of painting, print, and drawing by challenging the established norms of the mediums. By combining painting techniques with both traditional printing processes and digital prints, the works challenges the historical segregation between the mediums. By superimposing the traditional media with non-traditional material like vinyl and digital images, a dialog is created. The process of giclee is used to comment on the "plastic age," we live in today. Advertising is an industry that largely contributes to the rise of capitalism, and in its purest form, is simply image, color and pursuing viewership. The giclee is strategically placed, blocking certain areas while highlighting others. This references the digital world we live in today, inundated with projected reality, which we often experience in the curated world of social media and politics. This body of work, retrospect’s at the past, while creating an abstraction of the idea of the current present and future of the plastic era and its many complexities.