Love & Dignity Beyond Bars and Borders

This work is among my favorites. The scale of the work (7 x 4 feet) allowed me to experiment with large format linoleum block and monotype. Each part of the face was printed over a different monotype layer, and then cut and assembled to form the final figure. The thick lines in the background were cut from individual monotype sheets that were printed with my color palette, layer upon layer of inks. The monotype colors add an elaborate layer of depth and detail that’s uniquely interpreted when a viewer is close to the piece. The bars represent a desire to blur the lines that keep us separated from people who are incarcerated. How might we erase the walls of division between those of us who are on the outside and those who are inside of prisons, especially given how incarceration laws unjustly target community of color and cause extreme...