monotypes

Shared Spaces is a new series of monoprints that continues my ongoing inquiry into how interior spaces inform and contour our experience. Set wherever people are together, in the cramped parameters of public transit, in cultural and retail spaces, and in domestic corners, the series asks not only what is taking place between the figures who occupy these spaces, but why their relations unfold the way they do. 

Across the series, interiors function as emotional containers while subtly altering our experience. They hold the residue of rituals such as eating, waiting, working, and gathering long after the rituals themselves have ended, prompting us to wonder: How does the architecture surrounding us amplify or subdue our emotional response, and do these spaces impose roles onto us without our awareness? Something as ordinary as a seating arrangement, a sightline, or a threshold can quietly encode power, hierarchy, or intimacy. The figures who populate these spaces often appear in close proximity but emotionally disconnected. Shared Spaces asks viewers to look again at rooms they think they already know, and to consider what those rooms are doing to the people inside them.