Printed In The Plates of My Skin Lie a Loud Fig, 2025: Toyobo prints / photo etching on paper, wood, fig, string, and beads.

the hand and the fig

intimacy, abundance and waste

symbiosis and dependency in relation to their pollinators

living in ruins — or ideological ruins —there is a natural persistence of symbiosis in our lives and in the spaces of comfort that exist.

reading the books of Gloria Anzaldúa and Donna Haraway

a delicate and attentive touch but with a certain bitterness and intensity

Her hands have always held truth, yet patterns of generational silence are prominent by having her act out both destruction and the delicate peeling of the fig, surrounding it with touch; she is performing an embrace of the noise and rejection of silence.