re(patterning) is an ongoing collaborative project between myself and artist Amanda Wood. Although this project is collaborative, what is pictured here are my own contributions to the collaboration. 

 

(re)patterning is a joyful collaborative expression of pattern as a place of resistance, reimagining and unmaking. Through close looking and repetition in printmaking practices, this ongoing collaborative exploration obscures and reveals the sense of otherness that is part of feeling compelled to self identify in a normative culture. Repeated actions – breaking, revealing, and rearranging – are at the core of an attempt to uncover an imagined sensory language that moves beyond the visual to navigate experiences that there are no words to describe. Representational images and mundane objects have been abstracted into sound, texture, patterns, and imagined narratives that engage with conceptions of coded language and collaborative storytelling.