All Final Prints 
Top Left to Right: “Mirror (I Long For Me)”, “She’ll Take Care of It From Over There”, “Come Out, Come Out”; Bottom Center: “Mirror (I Long For Me)” 
Top Center: “Mirror (I Long For Me)” ; Bottom from left to Right: “Mirror (I Long For Me)”, “She’ll Take Care of It From Over There”, “Come Out, Come Out”
My final prints for the semester are a series of black-and-white prints and a series in color — the latter of which is made from two blocks while the former is made of only one. The series in color uses varying colors in the background that get darker to represent the damage being done during and after the relationship. Both series follow the same narrative: an individual looking into a mirror at their reflection notices how their reflection is no longer mirroring them; a strange woman has appeared in the mirror’s reflection and is leaving marks on the reflection’s neck, causing a second head to emerge. In the end, a total of three heads merged onto one body are visible in the mirror and coming out of it in the final print.
The series refers to former work that I have done in this class — the merged heads (from the “Conjoined” drypoint etchings) and the woman leaving the marks (from the “Love is (Not) Black & White” relief edition) both make a reappearance. The series was meant to be a depiction of looking on at a relationship that extends beyond traditional standards and boundaries: two individuals exist and love in secret, and the heads’ emergence from beyond the mirror world represents a form of coming out. On the contrary, I also viewed this as looking on at a codependent relationship: as the individual in the real world acknowledges how the unhealthy attachment to their partner has now led to the emergence of unhealthy behaviors — or in this case, multiple heads. Either way one has to ask: is the change, in the end, one for the worse or the better?
