7a/ Works on Paper

These works on paper begin with silkscreen printing many layers of historical handwriting facsimiles. Nineteenth-century penmanship lessons involved repeated lines of alphabets or aphorisms. Drawing North American pronghorn on top of the silkscreen prints recontextualizes the source materials, and transforms them into the barbed wire fencing that began to cordon off vast swaths of the West in the 1870s. Another artifact from this era is cross-writing, often used in correspondence to save paper and postage. In my work it mimics sheep fencing, also a barrier to pronghorn migration.