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My practice uses what’s on hand to build a free world by any means necessary. Working primarily with word and paper, I make the vulnerable durable by archiving the ephemeral.

Visual Art + Writing
Archives + Installations
Design
Liberation Projects

Archival Scanography

MOVEMENT in BLK (2025) Series of six photos created using analog motion and collaged archival protest posters + flyers from the NMAAHC collection on a flatbed scanner. Pictured:

01.End it!
Scanner Photograph of Archival Ephemera
8″ x 10″

06.say it backwards and forwards
Scanner Photograph of Archival Ephemera
8″ x 10″

02.we need a Rally
Scanner Photograph of Archival Ephemera
8″ x 10″

Prints available for purchase online and at The Annex in New London, CT

Planting Memories (2026) Scanography poetry on grief and trees, archiving my body and its memories

Published in Waiting for the End a collaborative zine by Megan St. Lawrence


Paper Art / Zines

Pearl (2020) and Celie (2024) Palm-sized rootwork dolls for protection

Materials: hand sewn mulberry paper, embroidery floss, foraged/ grown herbs

A League for Their Own (2024)
5.5“ × 8.5“
Half-page zine featuring my community-led research on Pet-To-Threat syndrome

A-Zine (2024)
2.75″ x 4.25″
folded mulberry paper, 8 year pressed flowers + grass, discarded library books
Mini zine art book with original poem on institutional art harm + artist accountability

*** currently on display at Break the System @ Cult Zenith in Waterbury, CT ***

Why My Black Ass Left The IWW (2025)
5.5“ × 8.5“
Mini zine about my experience organizing with the Industrial Works of the World


Protest Art

jAHMmED
August 2025 | Greenwich, CT

An archival protest against planned obsolescence, invisible labor, and forced time poverty as a distraction from ongoing global genocide. Documentation of a 32 day warranty process.

Materials: 5 crumpled pages preserved after paper jam, technical support codes on a paper plate, and blue tape sent on the replacement printer unit

Help a family survive

Archives / Installations

BtS Archive @ Cult Zenith
November 2025 – 2026 | Waterbury, CT

Break the System Archive @ Cult Zenith in Waterbury, CT. Pop-up zine library and radical ephemera installation on view until Dec 2026


Lil’ Rad Rec Room
September 2025 | New York City

Panels printed with curated Black media from the Break the System Archive on mutual aid sourced towels, sheets and curtains. Panels were taken by attendees along with free store survival supplies.

Installed for one-day-only at the 19th annual Lenapehoking (NYC) Anarchist Book fair


Design Projects

Fruit of Mouths Chapbook Covers


Free4ALL
2025 + 2026 Flyers

Digital collage using archival images


Break the System: Radical Archive
2024 Promo Campaign

Event Flyer: collage using archival images from works in Break the System Archive

Launch Graphic: scanography using analog movement with a flatbed scanner


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