Fifty individual Screen Prints on each sheet of a bound 8.5’’ x 11.5’’ notepad
Using the dictionary from my early-childhood home, I spliced together definitions - somewhat simplified and rearranged from original for these screen prints.
The prints were envisioned to exist as diptychs - pairings to call out the brazen illegality for what it was, to define what was happening. In these post-factual times, naming and defining felt necessary - a grounding exercise perhaps in unreal times. Some of the diptychs were also mantras of sorts - to call forth the collective will to say no and stand up to the fascist slide. I also appreciate how these definitions can be rearranged for alternate meanings.
MASS / NONCOMPLIANCE
TRUTH / UNTRUTH
RIGHT / WRONG
DEMOCRATIC / CRISIS
REFUSE / FASCISM
FACT / FRAUD
DENY / KAKISTOCRACY
UNFIT / CON
ORGANIZE / DISSENT
NO / COMPLICITY
BOYCOTT / SANCTION
DISOBEY / AUTHORITARIAN
DEPOSE / TYRANT
UNITE / STRIKE
RAISE / ALARM
PROTECT / PEOPLE
GROW / SOLIDARITY
SILENCE / VIOLENCE
EMBODY / LIBERATION
DEFEND / JUSTICE
DARK / MONEY
CORRUPT / POWER
RESIST / PLUTOCRACY
PRACTICE / CARE
NO / GENOCIDE
Each definition was printed on 46 old (circa 2009!) enlarged ‘notebook paper’ screen prints (15’’ x 19’’ total size) - unearthed when moving studio spaces. This series was really born out of wanting to use these old prints - landing on notes (definitions) for the current times.
And a smaller selection was also printed on light blue 12.5’’ x 19’’ paper for purchase.