No Constants was created in response to a year defined by uncertainties: a months-long family crisis, the onset of a global pandemic, completing graduate school in a depressed economy, environmental catastrophe, a fraught presidential election, a national reckoning over racial injustice… The weight of these concurrent events was such that when I discovered a robustly sprouting onion in an end-of-year grocery delivery, I felt unfazed, delighted, and incredulous — all at once. I found comfort in the thought that, at the end of a year in which the only constant seemed to have been the absence of constants, my home and studio were hosts to a small act of nature persevering.
Produced in an edition of 30.
2021. Gouache and pearl cotton on Winterstoke Laid paper; handmade paper from overbeaten abaca, dyed with weld and iron. Pochoir, paper cutting, punch cutting, and sewing. 9” x 12”