Maskros, 2024. Paper sculpture made from kozo, turritella agate fragment (gifted), sandalwood dye (pterocarpus soyauxii), ruby shellac and dandelion florets (34.10675ºN, 118.29621ºW). 6 x 4.3 x 1 cm. Front view.
If you leave it alone, it might just happen, 2022. 1-run stone lithograph on Okawara Select, 51g/m². 7 ½ x 9 ½ inches (19.05cm x 24.13cm), edition of 28 + Artist’s Proofs.
Folded Quiet, 1-run lithograph (positive plate) with watercolor on handmade Japanese paper. 5 ¾ x 8 inches (14.6cm x 20.3cm), variable edition of 6.
Image description: a multimedia artwork on laid paper, depicting a figure amidst a whirling pool of water. Printed over the figure in handwritten text are the words, “the folded quiet / the elemental and the sensory flow together.” The lines are broken by a row of six small, imperfect circles. The print has visible creases from having been folded and sent as a letter.
Where we have always known each other, 1-run lithograph (positive plate) on Echizen Shikibu Gampi, 18 g/m². 21 ½ x 30 inches (54.6cm x 76.2cm), edition of 16.
Image description: a lithographic print on light-weight yellow paper, laid out on a white surface. Abstract brush-stroke marks, printed in black, occupy the centre of the sheet.
We are shrinkable, papier-mâché sculpture with collaged print elements including fragments from a multi-run colour lithograph. 4 x 2 ½ x 3 inches (10.1cm x 6.4cm x 7.6cm), sculptural edition of 1, print edition of 6.
Image description: a papier-mâché sculpture of a house with an A-frame roof. The roof shape is hollow, containing a dried chrysanthemum flower. The papier-mâchéd lithograph features handwritten text and drawing printed in black and canary yellow. The words, “ we are shrinkable” can be made out.
Sympathetic Shifting, 1-run lithograph (positive plate) on gold fleck xuan paper, folded & sealed. 3 x 5 ¾ inches, folded; paper size 6 x 11.5 inches (15.2cm x 29.2cm), sculptural edition of 1, print edition of 6.
Image description: a front and back view of a lithographic print on yellow rice paper with gold flecks. The print has been folded and sealed, resembling a tattered letter that has been rained on. Part of the handwritten printed text can be made out from both sides, through the translucent paper: “Please send me the frittering of your thoughts.”
canyon (detail), multi-run lithograph on Rives BFK Grey 280 g/m². 15 x 20” (38.1cm x 50.8), edition of 14.
Several prints from this edition were sold as a part of Sick-In-Quarters (SiQ)’s Disability Arts Fund (redistributed to G.L.I.T.S, Women For Political Change Mutual Aid Project & Walela Nehanda).
Image description: detail of a lithograph on ash green rag paper. The paper’s border houses a rectangle of sandalwood pink that extends to the edge of the image on the left and top edges. Gestural marks printed in shark grey move towards the upper right printed image, with algal bloom-like washes cluster at the base.
Lime kiln damstone, 2024. Paper sculpture made from kozo, midorimenou iwa-enogu (a natural mineral pigment made from ground bloodstone), found ceramic tile and Black Wattle gum (38.89422° S, 150.50305° E). 6 x 4.2 x 0.6 cm. Front view.
seanchuimhne ag borradh, 2024. 1-run stone lithograph on Kadoide Udasu (pictured), Okawara, Bunkoshi and 3 sheets of handmade paper made by Maya Kitakado Cannon. 7 ¾ x 10 ¼ inches (19.7cm x 26cm), variable edition of 19 + Artist’s Proofs. The image on this stone was etched using foraged, hand-processed gum endemic to south-eastern Australia, from Country of the people of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups.
Refuge, monoprint, paper sculpture on Rives BFK. 10 ¾ x 7 ½ inches (27.3cm x 19cm), edition of 1.
Image description: a brightly coloured paper sculpture sits on a shelf. The sculpture has two intersecting pieces: the front piece is diminuendo-shaped, with four triangular turrets on the left side and has two tiny thread baubles attached. The back piece plumes upward gesturally and loops back in streams of colour.
enso, 1-run lithograph on Kitakata Natural (handmade), 36 g/m². 15 x 22 inches (38.1cm x 55.9cm), edition of 20.
Image description: a lithographic print on light-weight natural coloured paper. Two irregular circular forms sit side by side, centered on the page. The left circle is accompanied by six fulgurations, moving outwardly from it’s left side towards the edge of the sheet. The right circle has a vertical line extending through the centre. The marks combine tusche wash, crayon drawing and manual erasure.
Room for Breath, 1-run lithograph (positive plate) with silver leaf on Kizuki Hosho. 8 x 8 inches (20.3cm x 20.3cm), variable edition of 6.
Image description: A lithographic print on light-weight natural-coloured paper, with visible creases from having been folded and sent as a letter. Handwritten text is printed across the sheet, surrounded by 7 wonky circles clustered toward the left side of the composition. Each circle has been leafed with silver. Text reads, “not a circle / Maybe not enough of / my memories have / ROOM FOR BREATH / made it to jars.”
Room for Breath, 1-run lithograph (positive plate) with silver leaf on Kizuki Hosho, exhibited in Hold Us Tight, Fresh Eye Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo courtesy of Lauren Hughes.
c’est la vie, 1-run serigraph on Zerkall German Ingres. edition of 25.
Image description: a screen print on light blue laid paper, with three cut edges and a deckled edge along the top. A crude line-drawing is printed in black ink. On the left of the composition, a single pansy sits in a glass of water. Extending from the base of the glass is a dense patch of scribble. To the right is a teacup. Between the two vessels are the words “c’est la vie” in handwritten block letters.