GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE

GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE is a series of mixed-media collages completed in 2021 using vintage road maps, cyanotype origami shapes, acrylic paint, glitter, spray paint, gel pens, cotton gauze, medical wrap, prescription sheets, and more. These mixed-media pieces are meant to capture bits of what it's like to navigate the uncharted landscape of illness--psychological, temporal, emotional. It's full of its own beauty, but made up of scraps of things, of hope mingled with pain and getting up over and over again.

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This work is a description of a particular experience with illness and a particular philosophy of illness -- that I must navigate these things, that I move through whatever difficulty or anguish I suffer, and that I am working to make them transform me for the better. Pieces range in size from 4” x 6” to 16” x 22” —