Privacy Series
This is an ongoing series of collages evolving out of mail with patterned envelope interiors to provide privacy. The window portion of the envelope is important as a portal and a separation, between inside and outside, known and unknown, personal and institutional. This divide resonates with other images of division in our contemporary moment, from barriers and fencing, to isolation and quarantine, to inclusivity and exclusivity.
In Migrants, the envelope exteriors represent the artificial border where climate refugees are denied entry and caged, their invisibility and the loss of their potential represented by empty silhouettes.
No Place to Land focuses on the desperation of looking for a home, with the envelope windows as empty addresses, places that refuse to address the refugee crisis.