Our landscape is saturated with the growth of impersonal architecture and a need to expand. This diaspora sprawls into all parts of our surroundings as we find supercenters, factories, housing developments, designer malls and construction a part of the natural geography. These become so frequent that we are desensitized to a blur of forms, colors and icons. My work utilizes architectural elements that I find frequently, reconfiguring them to create a cartographic representation of our ever-changing surroundings. These nonrepresentational maps allow me to layer and suggest this expansion visually, letting the structures creep across the paper.
Utilizing the process of printmaking
and the multiple, I can replicate what our landscape encounters daily. The mechanical act of printing and reprinting
allows me to produce forms at a rapid pace, mimicking present day construction
and immediate geographic development. The
use of the hand drawn line gives each form a static boundary in which it can
expand beyond the border or remain contained to its space.