This body of work began as a response to my father’s passing in 2022. He and I often built DIY furniture together, and he would sketch his ideas on grid paper—a tool of planning, understanding, and control. Incorporating grid paper into my artwork became both a personal reference and a way to explore the tension between what is knowable and unknowable.

I use cyanotype, an early photographic process exposed with sunlight and best known for its use in mid-20th-century blueprints. Printed onto these structured surfaces are images of vast skies and open landscapes—forms that evoke the sublime and the weight of uncertainty.

During exposure, I block light with geometric shapes to create voids: metaphors for absence and the psychological spaces shaped by grief. Some forms fold outward or recede into the paper, while others puncture the wall behind the piece, breaching both image and physical space.

Through this process, I explore loss—its form, its evolving presence, and the quiet, persistent ways it continues to hold space within me.

Absent Mapping 17×22 inches

The Only Thing Holding Me Up 17×22 inches

Attrition 17×22 inches

Stochastic 17×22 Bubbles bleached onto cyanotype