About

In 2005, I lived with my grandmother while working on my MFA at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I discovered a beautiful accident in her basement, a stack of tissue paper stained by water from a leaking pipe. I was initially drawn to the intricate pattern left on the paper. The way the water stained the paper reminded me of the old drop ceiling tiles I would stare at when I was bored in elementary school. Finding the watermarked paper changed the entire trajectory of my artistic career.

I utilize the ink from “bleeding” tissue paper to create ​Tissue Ink Monoprints​, the …