Tomato landscapes
I made these monoprints during a residency at Kala Art Institute in 2024 while talking with my mom about old wives’ tales and her experiences growing up in Ashe County, North Carolina. I was raised in Raleigh, and I was interested in connecting her stories with my own through a landscape of North Carolina tomatoes. I printed monotypes as a base layer for each work using an etching press and inked plexiglas. I then screenprinted tomato, pepper, cloud, and mountain imagery on top of the painterly abstract marks using acrylic ink and water-soluble crayons.