As Above / So Below

3-color lithograph flocked with interference pigment on 300gsm Magnani Pescia paper

22 x 27.5 inches / 55.9 x 70 cm

Edition of 15

2024

Printed by Master Printer Jazmine Catasús

Published by EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

Collections: Library of Congress, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Archives

The edition's title, As Above / So Below, refers to situating oneself within systems of knowledge across both material and spiritual worlds. Using textures from cheesecloth, a print studio material, along with photo collage and a hand-drawn cosmogram, the composition draws on my textile-based printmaking practice and developing body of work, the Wayfinding series (2022-Present).

The cosmogram drawing in this print is flocked with a shimmering interference pigment during the printing process, while ink is still wet. Interference pigments produce color by reflecting specific wavelengths of light, and color appears to shift based on both the lighting and viewing angle. In As Above / So Below, the cosmogram shifts between silver and violet.

As Above / So Below represents self-determination, the nonlinear nature of time and our consciousness as a conduit between physical and spiritual worlds. I see much of my work as a form of ancestor veneration; a link between past, present and future. Each point in the cosmogram represents the four stages in the repeating cycle of life: conception, birth, maturity and death.