Letterpress prints
47” x 39.5” each
Edition of 3
Interactive installation
Single-channel video
Watch the video here
47” x 39.5” each
Edition of 3
Interactive installation
Single-channel video
Watch the video here
Self-Evident
Solo exhibition
America 250 Commission, Chicago History Museum
Commissioned by the Chicago History Museum, “Self-Evident” was developed as a site-specific project exploring contemporary immigrant stories in Chicago. The project centers on a series of large-scale letterpress prints created using historic wood type, drawing from the typography and techniques used to print the 1776 Dunlap Broadside.
Rather than reproducing the original text, I invited contemporary voices, particularly immigrants and their descendants, to reflect on ideas of belonging, citizenship, and self-definition. Their responses form the content of the prints. The works are built through layered printing, with multiple texts overprinted to create dense typographic fields that move between legibility and abstraction. As the layers accumulate, individual voices intersect, obscure, and re-emerge, and produce a surface that holds contradiction and simultaneity.
Featured in the installation is a video of my studio practice, produced and shot by Robert Salazar and edited and produced by Cody Schlabaugh.
The installation also includes an interactive component: visitors to the museum are invited to respond to the same prompt and add their voices to the work. Using index cards, they write their responses and slide them into the display, allowing the piece to grow over time. The museum has been documenting and archiving these contributions as they accumulate, creating an evolving archive of public reflection alongside the printed works.
Installed together, the project functions less as a fixed statement and more as a collective document in flux. It resists a singular narrative, instead reflecting the complexity and multiplicity of contemporary American identity
Learn more about the exhibition at the Chicago History Museum Website.
December 2025 - April 2026
Photos by Chicago History Museum
Solo exhibition
America 250 Commission, Chicago History Museum
Commissioned by the Chicago History Museum, “Self-Evident” was developed as a site-specific project exploring contemporary immigrant stories in Chicago. The project centers on a series of large-scale letterpress prints created using historic wood type, drawing from the typography and techniques used to print the 1776 Dunlap Broadside.
Rather than reproducing the original text, I invited contemporary voices, particularly immigrants and their descendants, to reflect on ideas of belonging, citizenship, and self-definition. Their responses form the content of the prints. The works are built through layered printing, with multiple texts overprinted to create dense typographic fields that move between legibility and abstraction. As the layers accumulate, individual voices intersect, obscure, and re-emerge, and produce a surface that holds contradiction and simultaneity.
Featured in the installation is a video of my studio practice, produced and shot by Robert Salazar and edited and produced by Cody Schlabaugh.
The installation also includes an interactive component: visitors to the museum are invited to respond to the same prompt and add their voices to the work. Using index cards, they write their responses and slide them into the display, allowing the piece to grow over time. The museum has been documenting and archiving these contributions as they accumulate, creating an evolving archive of public reflection alongside the printed works.
Installed together, the project functions less as a fixed statement and more as a collective document in flux. It resists a singular narrative, instead reflecting the complexity and multiplicity of contemporary American identity
Learn more about the exhibition at the Chicago History Museum Website.
December 2025 - April 2026
Photos by Chicago History Museum
