Not Me but Through Me,  2022
and Not Me but Through Me II, 2025
MDF relief print and child's tempera paint stick child drawings on  newsprint wheat-pasted in barn studio, Art Farm Nebraska 
8' x 8' and ZACC Montana 

Not Me But Through Me and Not Me But Through Me II use printmaking to highlight the mundane and repetitive nature of both artmaking and child-rearing. Childcare is integral to the process. As a single parent, my child is present during the work and contributes by making prints, cutting them into circles, and helping adhere them to the wall. For each installation, I also document and consider all additional childcare as part of the material of the work.

Not Me But Through Me was created when my child was five; Not Me But Through Me II when he was eight. I plan a third iteration when he is eleven, tracing how his increased autonomy shifts both of our creative processes over time.