hand-pulled silk screened shapes, ink drawing, and gold leaf on paper, 2016.

This piece started out as a portrait of a friend, over the course of working on it I experienced a lot of betrayal regarding this person, so it turned into a very angry expression. Kintsugi is a Japanese form of mending ceramics with gold. Here I have used the gold leaf in expressive text and splatters to signify the sealing of the ended fate of this relationship instead. Ending this relationship allowed me to mend myself by removing what wasn’t good for me and sealing it out of my life forever.