Rearrangements: To be honored. To be remembered., 2024

Watercolor with silkscreen

Edition Varee 10/14

16 x 20 in.

Rearrangements: To be honored. To be remembered. is an edition varee of silkscreens on watercolor accompanied by recorded conversations with Dr. Isabel Trecco Hawkins and Dr. Aparna Venkatesan and myself. Dr. Hawkins is an astronomer, Senior Scientist, and Director of the Osher Fellowship at the Exploratorium. Dr. Venkatesan is a cosmologist, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of San Francisco, and an advocate of preserving dark skies and active in space policy. We are three mothers at different stages of parenting from three different cultures who share a love of the night sky.

This print is part of a new, in-progress body of work - recorded conversations, watercolors, silkscreens, and hand formed paper. I move and invert letters with liquid materials. Watercolor and pulped fabrics renders permanent language malleable. I borrow fonts from hard monuments and shift them to soft paper. Rearranging text attempts to override what is written in stone.

Made with ongoing support from The Space Program San Francisco. Silkscreens printed with Ben Venom. Recordings edited with Brian Delaney.

Courtesy of the artist. Made at The Space Program San Francisco and printed with Ben Venom.