She Made Me Nervous

This piece was created during the winter of 2012 when I was an artist in residence at Atelier Circulaire in Montreal, Canada. I spent my days working closely with master printer, Carlos Calado, printmaking on a lithographic offset press for the first time. In the evenings, I would spend time in the computer lab to explore digital art approaches. The figures in this piece began with drawings that I scanned and then combined with monotypes I had created years prior, in 2010 and 2011. This was a common creative practice I was doing in 2012 - developing a library of colors to be repurposed in digital collages.

In this series, I returned to the bold, black lines that I was avoiding during my daytime lithographic printing sessions as I developed works like Mi Vida Loka and Encounter with Self. At...