Domestic Views
Prints, 2014 - 2015Domestic Views was developed from my investigation on intimacy between bodies, looking to the home as a site for this physical connection. Started in 2012 from a series of photographs, these works became a way to research narrative, image, portraiture, and home.
These small etchings, created while I was a graduate student, present the objects my partner and I brought into our new apartment. These ordinary objects become stand-ins for us, providing quiet moments of contemplation. Objects reoccur throughout the series, presenting an ambiguous narrative singularlity. The images are about what is there and not there through an omission of literal representations of the body and deeper focus on spaces for bodies. Collectively, this work asks: What traces do we leave behind in the spaces we occupy?
View of My Night Stand, 2014, Etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper, 6” x 8”
View of Dustin’s Night Stand, 2014, Etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper, 6” x 8”
View of Our Bed, 2015, Etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper printed in white, 12” x 20”
View of The Dining Room Table, 2014, Etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper, 6” x 8”
View of Our House Plants (And Us), 2014, Etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper, 6” x 8”
View of The Living Room, 2014, Etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper, 6” x 8”
View of The Love Seat, 2014, Etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper, 6” x 8”
View of Dustin’s Closet, 2014, etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper, 6” x 8”
View of My Closet, 2014, etching with aquatint and drypoint on paper, 6” x 8”
View of Our Bathroom Mirrors, 2015, Etching with soft ground, aquatint, and drypoint on paper, 9” x 12”