Out West screenprints and drawing
Out West - Showcased through multiple channels on this website -
Out West is a body of works that is incomplete, so far there's a handful of prints, collages and a couple of drawings.
This body of work was inspired by literally living "out west"
I am a native "out west" person, but don't feel at all like what that means to the larger popular culture.
Out West is an idea that one lives by when one is engaging in tropes around being "out west." These tropes are challenging and largely untrue.
My prints, collages and drawings on this multifaceted topic are meant to be simply a toe dip into the culture of "Out West" that people embody - including significant amounts of individuals who are only out west regionally because they are making conscious efforts to avoid northern weather and snow (i.e. snowbirds). I grew up "Out West" but I am not a cowboy and do not have ties to the land or the region, yet I feel attached to the incredibly flawed history of this region and those who inhabit it.
Mixing the symbolism of advertizing, promotional imagery of "traditional" symbols to celebrate and mid-late twentieth century icoography I try to weave the current with the past, the micro with the macro, the individual experience with the masses. There's a lot of work I haven't done here. But it's the start.