palimpsest

Palimpsest is the term used to describe a body of work consisting of large drawings, artists books, and monotypes, which consider the social influences of colonialism, geographic bias, authority, and nationalism in a shifting global culture. They are abstract cartography, with primarily focused on the physical world map as an imperfect object, with emphasis on how and why they were made and the intentions of those who created them. The works in this series utilize printmaking processes to create unconventional representations of global bodies and aesthetically claim agency over the fallible nature of maps. The works display simultaneity of space and time by overlapping maps and creating textures while dissolving concepts of national identity, borders or boundaries to illuminate a need for better understanding across cultures.