Felt, Flocked, and Folded
2025
UV print to die-cut brushed aluminum dibond, artist made vinyl stickers, solar panel hinges
156” by 80” by 26”
Felt, Flocked, and Folded is a grand scale print of a skeleton medical graphic embedded into a solar panel pattern. Layered on the surface are hundreds of butterflies made from custom printed and cut vinyl. They are gathering in the heart and stomach area of the work.
This piece was inspired by my research in the Philly AIDS Library Archives at Temple University’s special collection, Our Own Press’s digital archives within Old Dominion University’s library, and through case study research on lung disease cases found in OSHA policy on the National Archives. While doing this research, binary relationships of love and fear surfaced through stories of love, health, and survival. This work attempts to highlight how love and fear manifest in similar parts of the body through somatic and abstract languages.
By mimicking a solar panel through the formal properties of the printed surface, the work casts light and luminescence as part of my palette of materials. This is a subtle nod to how light is integral to our understandings of energy, labor, spiritualism, and health.
This project was supported through the Gay Creative Study and Research Grant through the department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Old Dominion University.
2025
UV print to die-cut brushed aluminum dibond, artist made vinyl stickers, solar panel hinges
156” by 80” by 26”
Felt, Flocked, and Folded is a grand scale print of a skeleton medical graphic embedded into a solar panel pattern. Layered on the surface are hundreds of butterflies made from custom printed and cut vinyl. They are gathering in the heart and stomach area of the work.
This piece was inspired by my research in the Philly AIDS Library Archives at Temple University’s special collection, Our Own Press’s digital archives within Old Dominion University’s library, and through case study research on lung disease cases found in OSHA policy on the National Archives. While doing this research, binary relationships of love and fear surfaced through stories of love, health, and survival. This work attempts to highlight how love and fear manifest in similar parts of the body through somatic and abstract languages.
By mimicking a solar panel through the formal properties of the printed surface, the work casts light and luminescence as part of my palette of materials. This is a subtle nod to how light is integral to our understandings of energy, labor, spiritualism, and health.
This project was supported through the Gay Creative Study and Research Grant through the department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Old Dominion University.
