ABOUT THE ARTIST
For many years monotypes have been my medium of choice.
I enjoy the dialogue I have with the press and the process it entails. My
work and aesthetics derive in large part from my heritage — North
African — and my formative cultural experience growing up in Italy.
I begin my prints by traveling into memory and imagination. I am interested
in boundaries and transitions. Both physical and cultural. How close can you
get? What happens when you get near? I combine seemingly diverse realms and
systems that coexist in one space. The visual language is primordial, melodic
and industrial. I will use Arabic callilgraphy, architecture and organic drawings
as forms which represent history, power and sensation and how they connect
with one another.
I use drawings on paper, transfers, rubbings repitition of patterns and other mark-making tools to build a progression of layered ideas. With each run through the press, as layers change and become more complex, history and memory become part of the conversation.
Member of California Society of Printmakers