I am interested in making work by hand. My images are made up of multiple blocks and each block is carved, inked and printed by hand with a baren. The text is printed with handset wood type or polymer plates on a Vandercook letterpress. Carving woodblocks and printing type is time consuming in contrast to our society where everything is made to be fast, efficient and overproduced. My process is a physical reminder of limitations, while serving as a direct response to the tactile act of making things.

This work is about my confusion between the personal and the political. About trying to distinguish the point where policy-making and power at the national level collides with the everyday lives of ordinary people. In Poland, I saw exhibitions and read historical accounts of World War II. I listened to stories from my Polish friends about family members who crawled through the underground sewers in the Warsaw Uprising or miraculously survived Auschwitz. After a childhood of living under communism, my friends witnessed the fall of the iron curtain as teenagers. Now as young adults, they question their global world. They live with freedom in a democratic and capitalist society for which their grandparents have waited for so long. However, they oppose a lifestyle of excess, greed, and consumerism that the new society evokes. They ask the question that I have so often asked myself: How do I live, work and create in the context of today’s world in a responsible and sustainable way?

My images create a visual narrative, bearing witness to both the ordinary and extraordinary events of human life. I work in series; my prints complete each other as a non-linear account that attests to the complexity of the human condition. In this work, I am utilizing a perspective based on multiple points of view. I am interested in challenging the unity of time by the defiance of scale and by showing several moments at once.
Daily life intersects with themes of work, relationships, culture, natural disasters and dumb luck.