Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined

Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined is a traveling exhibition featuring a collection of works inspired by passports and other travel documents.

I was commissioned by the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection to make a piece for this exhibition. The result was Forgeries, which reflects on how we are taught to imagine and understand boundaries, how we experience (or do not experience) the violence of their enforcement, and how we can unlearn what we are taught is inevitable and necessary.

The series of artists’ books in the exhibition reflects on themes of immigration, power, limitation, and belonging through creative depictions of what the passport reimagined looks like to each artist. These artists were commissioned by the Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection and are touring through 2025 and 2026 from the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Other exhibition spaces include: San Francisco Center for the Book, Minnesota Center for the Book, Maier Museum of Art.

BIMA also hosted a series of artist panels, one of which I has the pleasure of being part of, alongside Ben Blount, Sandra Fernandez, and Mare Blocker. Facilitated by Catherine Alice Michaelis. You can see the panel recordings here.