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Relief Prints
All of my relief prints are hand-carved and printed using archival black ink.
Colored prints are individually painted with handmade inks and gouache derived from plants I cultivate, or from ethically foraged minerals, clays, plants, and discarded metals found across Minnesota.
Process
In the relief print titled Protect Your Happiness, an opossum is surrounded by lupine flowers. Since this work was inspired in part by lupine, I created ink from their sweetly-scented blossoms and used it to paint this piece. These flowers were responsibly gathered in Two Harbors, Minnesota. All colors (yellow green, blue grey, grey, and pink) were derived from the lupine flowers shown in the circular photos.
Bittersweet Nightshade · painted with foraged sumac ink from Nerstrand, MN
Hand of Glory · painted with orange brick dust gouache from Lake City, MN
Midsummer Blackbird · painted with coreopsis ink cultivated in Northfield, MN
Illuminate · painted with sulphur cosmo ink cultivated in Northfield, MN
Celestial Ram · made with red brick dust gouache from Lake City and onion skin gouache from Northfield, MN
Old Magic · printed on parchment dyed with walnut husks from Nerstrand, MN
Five Linked Skink · unpainted
Anarchy Toad · unpainted
The Travelling Crystal Snailsman · painted with peony petal ink cultivated in Nerstrand, MN. Frame painted with dyer's chamomile from Northfield, MN.
Sculptures
springbok and labradorite · a meditation on flow, gracefulness, and agility
chicken and rainbow moonstone · a reflection on endurance, conviction, and uncovering truths
coyote and red tiger's eye · a story of strength, self confidence, and resilience
Stickers
Weed Out Misogyny
Field bindweed was used to represent misogyny, because it smothers everything it grows near.
Love is Love
Celebrating love with a diverse array of flowers, each beautiful and necessary for a thriving prairie.
Patriarchy is as deep rooted as the thistle, and its seeds spread far and wide.
Uproot the Patriarchy