Published Works
I'm Fine
A graphic poetry book. No no, I mean a graphic design poetry book. About anxiety and the press of day to day life.
Complete with your very own grocery list to acompany the poems.
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Desensitization
The Desensitization booklet is available for sale through this LINK or if you contact me directly I have a limited supply available in Denver.
Avagabondsvisual@gmail.com
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“Desensitization” visually represents the feeling of being overwhelmed by societies big issues. The progression of multiples guides the viewer through the stages of desensitization through sloppy printing and vivid colors. Both elements used in the cyanotype process signify the inattention to detail that the most important subjects are given because of their sheer mass. This series pushes the viewer to discover the patterns that arise during desensitization, review, and become aware of both the harm and benefits of being overloaded with information.
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Celebration Book
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Shame Radiant
I am excited to be a part of the Shame Radiant show by east window opened during Month of Photography at Redline art center. The book and more information is available HERE
https://www.eastwindow.org/store/p/shame-radiant
Shame Radiant explores more of the personhood and less of the pathology of our collective as well as our outlying experiences of this complex moral emotion.
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90 pages
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6” x 9”
Shame Radiant began by asking the questions: What can we learn about how we regulate, uphold or challenge social norms, hierarchies or transgressions when shame is activated?
How can this powerful moral emotion turn inward, to ourselves, to our bodies, often catalyzing self-harm, self-negation, self-reflection, self-evaluation as well as healing? Writers, visual artists, and non-artists from around the world were invited to make work that collectively addressed their experiences with shame.
Shame Radiant offers an opportunity for participants as well as viewers to explore more of the personhood and less of the pathology of our collective as well as our outlying experiences of this complex moral emotion.
The artists featured in the book are: Adam David Bencomo, Amanda Coslor, Amy Fleming, Andrea Tejeda, Anne Waldman, Annette Isham, Ashley Andersen, Bootz Fritz, Brittney Denham, Bryn Robertson, Carol Dass, Chihiro Mori, Colleen White, Cora Angel, Dan Froot, David Keyser, Diane Fenster, Dona Laurita, Edina Picco, Ekaterine Kolesnikova, Elanna Conn, Elena Liventseva, Elizabeth Flinsch, Ellen Friedlander, Fan Ranran, Francis Kohler, Giuliana Funkhouser, Heather Goodrich, Heather Oelklaus, Ira Kremer, J.P. Mot, Jade Lascelles, Jesse Hanshaw, Johanna Granger, Josh Bergeron, Julie Fowells, Julie Hamel, Julie Harrison, Julie Puma, Kacy Jung, Kaelen Williams, Kasey Ferlic, Kayla Smith, Kellye Eisworth, Leah Diament, Lourdes Archundia, Luisa Zamora, Maria Grigoryeva, Matthew Calarco, Max Ferguson, Mayu Nagaoka, Melissa Stuart, Michael Bach, Michael Dixon, Michael Honegger, Mikayla Shuster, Monika Balu, Natja Soave, Nina Cruz, No Land, Olga Engibarova, Olga Tomkowiak, Olivia Hunter, Ona Janim Herman, Osamu Yokonami, Paola Katherine Rodriguez, Paula Gillen, Rachel Rowland, Ray Stephenson, Renee Marino, Roberto Rabadán, Roddy MacInnes, Santiago Garcia, Silva See, Tal Ben Avi, Tameca Coleman, Tara Evonne Trudell, Toni Oswald, Valentina Di Natale, Vanessa Leroy, Vee CR, Yvens Alex Saintil, Zsuzsanna Nagys.
Disgust: Unhealthy Practices builds a bridge between our moral imperatives and the wilds of survival; the cusp of emotion and instinct.
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96 pages
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Disgust is often seen as the bridge between our moral imperatives and the wilds of survival; the cusp of emotion and instinct. Activated in response to what we perceive or imagine as revolting, sick, infectious, diseased, contaminated and thereby threatening, disgust signals our awareness of fissures between feelings of safety and peril, stability and insecurity; of disjunctions that threaten facets of our personal identity and society at large.
Our collective actions relative to our experiences of disgust often bear witness to damaging prejudices and rhetorics, which attempt to conflate those who we perceive as different from ourselves, socially, culturally, politically, sexually, religiously, in age or ability, with vectors of physical or moral contamination. To be clear, this project aims to confront, subvert and transform these prejudices, not reinforce them.
The images and texts which comprise this book freely explore issues of bodily function, ownership, control, choice or lack thereof. We see works grappling with violated physical and social borders and hierarchies; the violation of gender boundaries and fluidity; notions of contagion, purity, wellness, disease and how such constructs may be used to ostracize unwanted members of various social groups. What do these representations of our bodies, belongings and psyches, seen through the lens of disgust, really mean to us, that we should impose such powerful and dangerous abstractions upon them? What roles can disgust play in re-shaping other less negative social interactions and in constructing social values that are in turn supportive of those interactions?
The often volatile emotions expressed through the works in this project make it easy to assume that the only story they tell is one of adversarial engagement and oppression. However, is it possible that through these many evocations of violated personal and collective borders, a peculiar sense of solidarity is being revealed? For when an out-group, seen from any side, becomes so close as to be indiscernible from ourselves isn't that when it becomes most threatening?
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is the accompanying book to the series "Augmented Reality" so you can have all of your favorite images in one place. Click HERE for online purchase or contact me for limited copies available in Denver!
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