Gallery > The Ordinary Things series

Pressing Matters
Screenprint
20.5 x 15"
2021
Clean Sweep
Screenprint
20.5 x 15"
2021
Brick by Brick
Screenprint
21 x 15"
2023
magnifying glass on fabric pattern
Screenprint
14 x 11
2019
Sugar and Ice
Screenprint
19.5 x 15"
2018
mirror surrounded by pattern
Screenprint
21 x 15"
2018
pail or bucket with rocks or stones
Screenprint
21 x 15
2019
Screenprint with alarm clock
Screenprint
20.5 x 15"
2017
Screenprint with chandelier and shadows
Screenprint
20.5 x 15"
2017
hole punch
Screenprint
20.5 x 15"
2015
Rotary telephone with kitchen scene
Screenprint and digital
20 x 15"
2014
Gift or present hovering over shadow
Screenprint
19.5 x 15
2016
Window blind pulled up, image of 2 cups on table
Screenprint
18.5 x 15"
2013
cherry pie slice
Screenprint
21 x 15"
2014
cake slice
Screenprint
19.5 x 15"
2015
bucket of corn kernels
Screenprint
18 x 14"
2015
Bouquet of flowers, image of 2 cups beneath the flowers, hidden, veil
Screenprint
19 x 15"
2014
Stair steps with image of table, chairs, and cups falling on rug
Screenprint
21 x 15"
2014
wheelbarrow, bricks, one brick short
Screenprint
18 x 15"
2014
bucket, pail, stones, rocks
Screenprint
19.5 x 15"
2015
Gift with bow, shards of cup or egg on floor, dandelion pattern on rug, JanetBallweg
Screenprint
19.5 x 15"
2013

This body of work explores the ways in which patterns shape our lives and the ways in which constructions of memory, experience and gender are embodied in the domestic landscape. I use common household objects as icons to encapsulate an intimate moment in time and create a subtext of something hidden yet important. The images beneath, partially disguised, depict domestic scenes where gender and sexuality are intertwined with issues of power vs. vulnerability, presence vs. absence, and public vs. private. The staging of the scene is intended to create an illusion of truth while simultaneously exposing the scene as pure invention -- an image meant to question and distort authenticity, a metaphor for the uncertainty of memory in which reality and the imagined intermingle. This fictional approach references the way we create stories over time, stories that are not always contingent upon facts, but rather upon our psychological needs: what happened to us, what we imagine has happened to us, and what we remember becomes intertwined into a personal truth. Ultimately, I want viewers to have a vague sense of recognition of this lingering moment as a common lived experience.