Monswoon

Swoon makes big drawings of people - portraits of friends and figures she encounters on the streets in New York City. She draws these images on big planks of Linoleum or wood, and painstakingly carves out the negative spaces with carving tools and her trusty Dremel. Then she takes a giant litho roller and inks up their surfaces, and lays down big sheets of paper and walks on them to transfer the images. Sometimes the paper she uses is from Chinese newspapers, which texturizes the drawings and ladens on even more meaning.

When she has printed multiples of each image, she cuts them out and attaches them with wheat paste on exteriors around the city, mostly on the Lower East Side. Over time, the drawings begin to blend into the backgrounds and alter or take on meaning. Pidgeon poop, truck exhaust, tagging, or scars of any order become a part of these images.