Sidewalk Collagraphs, 2017

The series Sidewalk Collagraphs was made while in residence at Ramon’s Tailor Gallery in San Francisco, CA. While there I collected lost and discarded objects from the Tenderloin neighborhood sidewalks, and used these found objects to make a series of collagraphs—prints made from a plate collaged with different textures. The intention of Sidewalk Collagraphs was to be present with that which we are usually indifferent to if not repulsed by. The project is guided by a hunch that in attending to and formally reimagining the discarded, the lost, and the residual of city life, the work might offer an intimacy with the ecology of the neighborhood. This series was produced with the support of Kala Art Institute’s Artist-in-Residence Program.