Migrating to the Surface Towards Enlightenment B (green) at the Graphic Sketch Club

at the Graphic Sketch Club (now theSamuel S

I'm working into portraying identity through the interactions of mediums and materials

or soul floating out among the stars

I became sensitized to the relationships between these conditions as my own mother began to exhibit signs of dementia

Migrating to the Surface Towards Enlightenment B (green) at the Graphic Sketch ClubMigrating to the Surface, 2003 Offset Lithograph Edition of 46 21 1 2 x 30 in Collaborative Printer: Marion Beaumont La Vaughn Belle lives and works in the Virgin Islands, a place that has changed colonial hands seven times, most recently passing from Denmark to the United States in 1917. That history, of a land and its people repeatedly claimed, renamed, and reordered by outside forces, runs through everything she makes. Her practice spans drawing,