Inventory of Likeness
2021 - Ongoing
Screenprint
18x24”
The inventories of likeness are a way for me to reflect on what I find the most interesting in illustration, i.e. the relationship between words and images. It also exemplify my feeling that illustration plays a huge role in teaching “visual literacy” in a society that we keep defining as image based, yet without providing any education around their power.
The series explores how a shape can be exhausted of meaning through language, how seeing is influenced by prior —often linguistic— knowledge, and the tension between captions and figures.