In February 2019 I was a visiting artist at Tamarind Institute for two weeks. I was paired with two printers-in-training, one from Finland (Jenni Viita) and one from Lithuania (Roma Auskalnyte), to make two collaborative lithographs. While in Albuquerque, I walked extensively around the city looking for and photographing buildings, plant life, curiosities and signage specific to the place. I used and referred to some of these in the two prints I made. I also brought with me some photographic references of my father to use in my prints. He grew up in Arizona and moved to California, where he lived for 60 years. He and my mother loved New Mexico and went there often to camp and take in the regional sites. They loved Native American crafts, collected pottery, and covered the walls of my childhood home with Navajo rugs. I visited Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Taos with my parents as well as later with my own children. Using my father’s likeness (heavily abstracted) felt important for me to do. As I continue to contemplate and respond to his 2017 death, I felt as if I was bringing him to a place he enjoyed.

My printers were excellent. After each color run they printed on a smaller piece of paper for me to bring home and finish in Bloomington. Out of their kindness came a group of twelve works entitled Thanks to Tamarind.

In 2022 I spent a week at Remarque Print Workshop. The works generated from that visit were inspired by walking through the residential neighborhoods of Nob Hill, and hiking through the Sandia Mountains with an old friend.