Selected Work
Ramshackle Rituals
2023-2024. Collage on paper, encaustic medium, Polaroid instant photographs, and acrylic paint - all rendered in black and white.
Glorifying Obesity
2022-2023. In this work, I am reclaiming the identity of being a fat woman. I take possession of it as one of my many names. Women always have many names.
Stratum
2021. While I was making this work, I ruminated on perceptions of loss, grief, change and static, death and rebirth.
Tragedy of the Commons
2020-2021. We all have a moral compass. It is apparent to most of us that human-fueled climate change is ethically irresponsible. So, why is it not globally viewed as a moral catastrophe, which needs to be stopped at all costs?
Locus of Self
2019. Locus of Self is a collaborative exhibition between Leah Swenson and Dawn Witter, dealing with the pain, power, and potential of being a woman. Experiences become psychological landscapes, maps, and relics. Locus of Self is an inventory of images and observations that documents the ineffable.
Meander Lines
2018. In cartography, a "meander line" is used to delineate the border at which a body of water meets a land mass. In some sense, it is a boundary between the known and the unknown. In this body of work, I am depicting my own "meander lines," between external stresses, pressures, and fears and my own selfhood.
Fetal Dreams
2019. REM sleep patterns have been observed in fetuses 27 weeks gestation and older. The content of fetal dreaming is hotly contested among scientists and medical professionals, as well as philosophers.
Hemmed
2017. Hemmed is a series of encaustic collages in which sewing patterns, vintage home workout guides for women, and maps are dissected and re-arranged. They address some uncertainties that many people, especially women, encounter in life, such as size.
Border Lines
2017. Border Lines is a series of paper collages in which maps are dissected and re-arranged. They are without place names, without context, and incomplete as political maps. Lines and colors converge in new ways.
Vide Infra
2015. Vide Infra is a Latin term meaning "see below," historically used in charts and texts to refer viewers to further information listed elsewhere. In this body of work, I'm considering different ways of mapping and charting information.
Pantographs
2016. A map is a paradoxical tool that aims to orient, direct, communicate and represent. But much information is lost in translation when a map is used. In these works, I have re-arranged and dismantled maps and their keys.