I am a printmaker and book artist weaving together archival research, oral history, folktales, and speculative imagining in order to explore Yiddish cultural transmission. I am interested in the ways that cultural knowledge is shared through mentorship and collaborative practices, as well as moments of rupture and subsequent efforts at reconnection within these lineages. I understand acts of repetition, transmission, and transformation as the connective marrow between the cultural dimensions of my work and the technical side of craft traditions like printmaking and book binding. 

My work often begins with a process of papercutting and collaging collections of archival materials, sketches, and photos. By manipulating each piece by hand, I am able to try out different relationships between the narrative fragments - interspersing a historical text with imagery from a folktale, or inserting papercut portals into an architectural photo. I then translate the composite imagery into a drawing for an etching or woodcut print. The resulting prints move with a delicate, dreamlike quality between recognizable letterforms, figures, and landscape and abstracted distortions. I aim to evoke the always fraught attempt at piecing together a coherent cultural narrative.