Camouflage 2014

This print project is explores the social stigmas, stereotypes, and other identifiers that we humans tend to depend on for group and self-recognition.  Heavily informed by gender politics and LBGQT issues, this blurring of lines between shapes, symbols, and colors in the screen-prints reveals rawness and ambiguity.  Illustrating the phenomenon that the identifiers we cling to, actually hide our true selves further. However unreliable and unrevealing, there is beauty in this camouflage, which is why I use the symbol of the butterfly.  The final black and white pieces collage together to create a large installation piece that mimics a Rorschach test.

Hopefully this test triggers the viewer and makes them reevaluate their dependency on social norms for identification, thereby forcing one to look harder and deeper at individuality.