Ten years ago my partner and I put our belongings into storage and traveled via backpack through parts of Northern Africa and South East Asia for a year. I am revisiting the printmaking plates used to make a unique set 16 multi process prints about this travel experience. The plates originally yielded an edition of photolithographs, collographs, wood relief, and monoprints, and the solo show was called Place: A Travel Memoir. The plates have now become art objects - artifacts. Now that they have been used to build an art piece, they cannot be printed again. They construct a new narrative, addressing how we perceive home, identity, belonging, and how we define the self. 
Homeland: An Artifact
My approach in my studio practice has always been experimental, and the process I use depends on what my current interests are, and what material I have available to me at any one given time. In Homeland, I am referencing hand work, slowness in creating art, recycling, upcycling, using what one has in the studio, rather than consuming, and adopting the general way of life we experienced in developing countries: (that) practicing resourcefulness can yield an object of strength and beauty.
Homeland: An Artifact
Detail
Snowflake
Lithograph, Mixed Media
16 x 14”
Strange Boat: Hong Kong Rooftop Dwellers
Photolitho, Monotype, Painting, Mixed Media
13 x 17”
Cairo: Street Views
Lithograph, Inked Plates, Mixed Media on Relief plate
38 x 16”
Illusion Dweller
Printmaking, Bindi, Cut Paper, Photolitho
15 x 8”
Kowloon
Lithograph, Mixed Media
16 x 14”
Black Sheep
Woodcut Print, Mixed Media
16 x 14”, d*
Pre Marital Promises
Mixed Media
13 x 8”
Of These, Hope
Relief Print, Mixed Media
15 x 8”
Double Happiness
Polyester Plate Lithography
15 x 8”
Illusion Dweller: Fez
Mixed Media, Hand Cut Collograph on Mulberry
8 x 6”
Offering
Mixed Media
13 x 8”
I Like China, and China Likes me
Photolithography, Mixed Media
13 x 8”