We are born in flames!
Inspired by Red Krayola's song and Lizzie Borden's 1983 feminist sci-fi classic of the same name, this risograph print was designed entirely by hand, from hand-cut rubylith, and was originally designed and printed during my residency with YTB Gallery in Toronto in 2016. This fresh new edition was printed in Summer 2024 on a two-drum MH9450 risograph, from the same rubylith, as a successful experiment.
This print harkens towards queer utopias and alternate realities, utopia as, José Munoz puts it, as "the not quite here," a horizon we are ever reaching towards and working towards in the here and now, in every safe(r) space that strives towards accessibility and leaves no one behind, in every fabulous femme and tender butch and everyone on the spectrum of gender and sexuality, room for everybody, every body. This print acknowledges our many forms of power and wisdom and magic in spite of the settler-colonial white supremacist capitalist heteronormative patriarchy that we have been born into. Flame on!
