This print was made for Our Mothers utilizing collagraph plates combined from two different series. Suzanne herself came from The Homeless Memorial, a series consisting of eleven different people experiencing homelessness. The series was conceived while on an eleven-stop trolley tour of the monuments and memorials of Washington, DC, replete with pockets of unhoused going largely unnoticed between the stops. Recreating the trolley route with a very visible homeless contingent is the objective for the series.  

An unanticipated outcome of creating these eleven figures was naming them while making the collagraph plates. The act of cutting and piecing them together became very personal, and led to the battle cry, “Homeless is not Nameless”.

Suzanne (not her real name) was actually based on a woman in my neighborhood with mental and addiction issues, and love for her two sons.  

The Home Project is another series based on printmaking workshops open for the general public in different venues primarily in Brooklyn. Participants made collagraph plates of their idea of home, printed up many on paper and flags to take home, and donated the plate for me to use and print up whole neighborhoods. The Home printed on this image is one of those donated plates.