This print was created for SGCI 2024: Without Margins, an invitational printmaking exchange portfolio curated by Kyle Chaput of Baylor University in Waco, TX and Humberto Saenz of the University of Texas at San Antoni, TX. It will be exhibited in the following locations over 2024-2025, beginning with its presentation at the Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) Conference:
- SGCI 2024, Rhode Island Convention Center, 5th Floor, April 3rd – 6th, 2024
- University of Texas at San Antonio, Main Gallery June-July, 2024
- Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, January 14th-March 9th, 2025
Artist Statement
The haptic and digital collide in the space where the body connects to keyboard, trackpad, touchscreen, mouse. Touch is the first language between one’s children and oneself in their early days in this world. As a working teaching artist mother, whose body provided food for two children without access to excellent medical care nor maternity leave, the language of touch became fraught.
My email anxiety crystallized in April 2020 with the premature birth and intensive care stay for my second born, all while I was teaching newly-online courses due to Covid-19 lockdown. My mind and body were stretched thin between the polarities of the needs of students, colleagues, the institution and, on the other hand, myself and my own family. This family was growing, with the introduction of a new and extra delicate human who was himself existing inside a glass box hooked up to wires, looking much like a beloved yet alien unit housed within a living computer.
This print explores failing to balance it all, and the wretched anxiety of constantly tolling bells from our inbox expressing needs yet unfulfilled.
Screenprint on Paper, 20″x15″, 2024