I return here often

screenprinted tunnel book made in 2024

I return here often uses the tunnel book form to explore the expanding and collapsing nature of memory. It focuses on a graphic novel I read the summer I was twelve (the last summer I did not have suicidal ideations) and comics I read when I was twenty and trying to reconnect with that younger version of myself. When all the memories are spread out, I know what happened when. But when I collapse them back down, they become one and I can’t think of one without recalling the other.

The collage pull images from Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria and Warren Pleese, The Sandman issues 1-21 by Neil Gainman and GloomCookie by Serena Valentino.