This body of work recontextualizes official documents such as social security cards, driver’s licenses and birth certificates in order to demonstrate the anxiety, hysteria and eventual commodification of identity. Using the same mechanical processes as those used to manufacture money, stop signs and t-shirts, I make prints and objects that reference mass production.

Printmaking lets me reference the history and significance of non-art objects such as government-issued documentation. For example, Credit Card (Back) is an oversized, counterfeit credit card that looks like something out of a novelty shop in order to unite financial fears with prop comedy absurdity.

The printed ephemera and numbers associated with our personal information identify us as much as our own signatures. Yet documents like social security cards and bank cards are issued to us by non-personal institutions. These entities have no ability to assign us those “markers” based on any of our tangible traits. The artworks in this series address the anxiety of identity theft by openly providing in large scale and number the personal information we are told to keep secret.