Horse Head, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Blood Suckers, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Ancestor, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Bullet Proof, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Beacon (After Frank Moore), 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
El Chivo, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
BYOB, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
General, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Dig Deeper, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Desk Set, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
New Shoes, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Homestead, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
I Like My Coffee Black, Like My Men, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Goose if Cooked, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
No Guts No Glory, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Vessel and Awards, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Tricorne, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Tongue, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Time Bomb, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Plantains, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Surviving the Flood, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
The Last Plantain, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Sweets, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Stool, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Under Water, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Spare Change, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Sacrifice, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Pansy Division, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Pudding, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Pricked, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Manchego, 2010, Silkscreen prints on paper, acid free vellum, 10 15/16 x 6 11/16 inches, 1/8
Bloodlines a Taxonomy of Prints
Critical confabulations (fabricated histories based on a kernel of truth) are often the starting point for the work I am engaged in. For example, this series of prints began with a reimaging of characters from my and my husband’s family trees. These queer stories about a gay general named Fred from Flatbush, Brooklyn who fought in the American Revolution, and a lesbian freedom fighter named Isabela from Ojo de Agua, near Salcedo in the Dominican Republic who fought against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, became the basis for drawings, and a collection of prints. This taxonomy provides a visual vocabulary of signs representing aspects of their lives, from the time bomb hidden inside a dish of sweet plantains to the new shoes that Fred stole from an English supply line. These fantastic fabrications act as transgressions of historical erasures; inserting queer radicals back into histories from which they are omitted from; so often is the case for the queer and peculiar.
