strike-through was a site-specific installation featuring risographs, photography, and hand-made textile pieces created in response to practices in language and photography that advance the erasure of specific histories.
Creating a repeated pattern of prehistoric rock formations taken on Indigenous Ancestral Pueblo land in New Mexico, the individual images are both a composite of ancient rock materials and are themselves recomposed into a new formation on the wall. The photographs that hang over this “ground”—taken in Galveston, TX, Joshua Tree, CA, and on the same land near Santa Fe, NM—examine pathways between deep time and the present. The symbols in the needlework serve as a metaphor, bringing an interpretation of handwriting into the vocabulary of the installation. Here we can see the edits, cuts, duplication, and accumulation of material.
The accretion of time is also at work in the translation between direct experience and the finished art object. The needlework begins as an unaltered photograph from the world, a selection is then digitally cut and enlarged or shrunk, and finally carefully remade from pixel to thread by hand and eye. The risograph wallpaper goes further: those needlework pieces were then photographed, from the back, repeated, further flattened, and multiplied on the risograph machine.
May 29th - June 22nd 2025
Over 400, 4 color, 11”h x15”w Risograph Prints
17 Inkjet Photographic Prints on Epson Hot Press Bright
1 25”w x 55”h Hand Embroidery on Linen with Cotton Thread
I created and produced this work during my residency at The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Spring 2025.
Thank you to Chelsea Clarke for access and guidance on the RISO, and Keliy Anderson Staley for making the partnership happen at The University of Houston.
Photo Credit to Alex Barber