title: "you will be okay"

technique: CMKY screen-print

book size: 5 inches x 3 inches

 

Spring 2018

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Mirror and edition of 5 screen printed books

 

This project is an attempt at the practice of self-love. Self-love personally is not a comfortable conversation to have, however the love you have for yourself is the most important love you will experience in your life. There is a practice in which you stand in front of a mirror and repeat a phrase that you are doubting about yourself over and over again every day until you begin to see the truth in yourself. It is all very uncomfortable to begin with but in the end it leads to a better you. This project for me was very personal and is very uncomfortable to share with other people especially with this expectation that society has to be happy and satisfied with yourself all the time, or at least to present yourself that way.

 

The mirror is a four layer, CMYK print in which the transparencies were pieced together by hand which resulted in human error. The point of this error was to realize that nothing and nobody is perfect but it is about finding the beauty in what is in front of you. The books are a series of 3 inch x 5 inch prints on metallic paper that are supposed to act as a mirror. The scene behind the words and the figure has been removed so that the viewers can insert themselves into each print and each phrase that goes along with it.