GO OUT IN THE WORLD AND FUCK IT UP BEAUTIFULLY.
25’’ x 36’’
Screen Print on 1989 Baltimore, MD street map
2025
Informational back print: These words come from Baltimore native, John Waters, delivered in his commencement speech to the 2015 graduating class at the Rhode Island School of Design. Known for his subversive films, as well as his books and stand-up, Waters is invoking a call to action for young artists. These words are meant to encourage a challenging of the status quo, to push boundaries and disrupt convention, to create work that is wholly original and unsettling - beautifully executed with creativity, style, and purpose. Transgression and humor seen paramount as tools to create something impactful that leads to new ideas and a broader understanding of the world.
Education Is The Most Powerful Weapon Which You Can Use To Change The World.
34’’ x 26’’
Screen Print on 1960s/1970s vintage South Africa “tourist” map
2025
Informational back print: These words are widely attributed to Nelson Mandela, perhaps first said during a speech at Boston’s Madison Park High School in 1990. Mandela was a South African activist against apartheid, imprisoned for 27 years for his opposition to the colonial apartheid regime, before becoming the first president of the country from 1994-1999. His activism went beyond ending apartheid, with a broader vision for human rights, equality, and reconciliation.
ICE OUT! DEFEND CHICAGO.
25’’ x 38’’, Screen Print on 1960s/1970s vintage tourist guide/map
2025
Informational back print: This poster was made in rapid response to I.C.E.’s illegal actions in Chicago, IL, in early October 2025: the targeting of an apartment complex and abuse of residents in the South Shore neighborhood; the concurrent brutality against demonstrators and the macing of a lay person; and the unprecedented order of the Texas National Guard into the city, against their wishes. Made in solidarity with and inspired by all there who are bravely standing up for their communities against this brutality. We’ve seen regular folks stop abductions by unlawful masked secret police. Stay strong. Stay safe.
Alligator Alcatraz
25’’ x 36.25’’, Screen Print on 1989 Naples, FL Metro area map
2025
Text in artwork: Ochopee, Florida - U.S.A. (60 miles east of Naples, FL and 55 miles west of Miami) The newly built migrant detention center callously dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" opened early July 2025. It was constructed in 8 days on the site of an abandoned Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport air strip, in the remote Everglades wetlands within the larger Big Cypress Natural Preserve. It was built without Tribal consent, in violation of treaty rights and Tribal sovereignty - sitting within 1,100 feet of a traditional Miccosukee village and 3 miles of 11 Miccosukee and Seminole villages and ceremonial grounds. The center's construction had no public comment and is in violation of mandated environmental reviews and laws. It is a 5,000 bed tent facility with chain-length cages, currently/initially holding 900 people. There was flooding within the first few days, posted in a video by the Trump administration. There have been many other reports of human rights abuses and inhumane conditions: food with maggots, overflowing toilets, intense lighting 24/7, intermittent/non-working water, sweltering heat, mosquito infestations, and the denial of food, legal representation and medical care. Civil rights lawyers and immigration advocates have described the conditions as comparable to a concentration camp. It is an illegal deportation camp.
If My Heart Should Break Tomorrow
26.75’’ x 39’’
Screen Print on vintage Great Britain & Ireland map
2025
Informational back print: These words come from a letter written by my great-great-grandfather (my grandma’s grandpa), John Mulholland White, in a letter to his grandchildren in 1947, on his 75th birthday. At age 10 (c. 1882), John came to Coldwater, Canada from Glasgow, Scotland with his mother, Jane (Mulholland). His father John, a shipwright, had already made the trip and sent for them. His father was later ‘lost at sea’ (c. 1888), while traveling between the America and Scotland. John was a Protestant with a 3rd grade education received in Scotland. Sometime between 1885-1887, he moved to Beechtree, Pennsylvania - a mining community. He worked as a coal miner in Elnora (Eleanora) Mines in Jefferson Co., PA. In 1894, he returned to Scotland because (according to my grandmother) he “didn’t like America”, i.e. he didn’t like mining. Three years later (c. 1897) he returned to America because he “didn’t like Scotland” (according to my uncle, he may have actually left due to troubles from his labor organizing). He met my great-great-grandmother, Nellie Josephine Tolbert, in Jefferson Co., PA and they married in 1901. In 1902, their first baby was still born. They went on to have 6 children and settled in Youngstown, Ohio, where he worked at the mills. He died in 1958. {also included: print of John’s handwritten letter to his grandkids}
Space Junk
22.375’’ x 34’’
Screen Print on 1973 vintage ‘Blue Marble’ National Geographic poster
2025
Informational back print: Struck by current stats of space debris / space junk / space pollution / estimated by NASA to be at more than 25,000 objects larger than 10cm in orbit, as well as millions of smaller fragments - I remixed this iconic Blue Marble image of Earth, visualizing this human impact. In 2025, the number of satellites is estimated at nearly 15,000. Huge increases are expected by 2030 (60,000 - 100,000). This raises concerns about the hypothetical Kessler Syndrome: when debris and objects orbiting becomes so dense that it triggers a cascade of collisions, creating even more debris over time.