Tender Impressions, a series of mixed-media prints, examine the body as a printmaking matrix. Each print uses modes of bodily participation to explore self intimacy and the idea of a body as a tool for authentic image making.

Beet juice and salted water are used in the layers of the print evoking the intimacy of bodily liquids, like sweat and blood. The unforgiving image made by a body echoes this biological fingerprint, hair, pores and creases are all on display. Silkscreen images of fruit reference the mythical role of fruit as forbidden and condemned flesh in countless female narratives. In a new context, this old iconography of female pleasure arises more complex, complicit, and powerful.