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Clusterfuck: A Queer Herbarium

Clusterfuck is an autobiographical herbarium collection. These packets are part of a much larger collection-in-the-making, documenting my lifelong journey unlearning heteronormativity and mononormativity, Herbarium collections, like diaries, allow us to create a memory outside of ourselves and return to a specific place or moment in time. They provide an opportunity to revisit that moment with new eyes and new questions. In traditional herbariums, these questions are about evolution and ecology. In the case of Clusterfuck, the questions are about identity, relationships, self-discovery, and most importantly, love.

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Lichens of Oregon 

Collected in 2013. Imaged in 2025.

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Risograph

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Lichen Types: Portrait of a Chosen Family. .2024. Collaged image. 2- color Risograph print. Printed by the Ann Arbor District Library on a RISO MH 9450

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Lace Lichen (Ramalina menziesii ).  2025. 2- color Risograph print based on a stereo microscope image (Imaged on an AmScope SM-3 Series Zoom Trinocular Stereo Microscope at the Carnagie Mellon School of Art, printed on a RISO MH 9450).

British Soldier Lichen (Cladonia cristatella).  2025. Hand-drawn image. 2- color Risograph print. Printed by the Ann Arbor District Library on a RISO MH 9450

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All I know about love.  2026.  2- color Risograph print based on a stereo microscope image (Imaged on an AmScope SM-3 Series Zoom Trinocular Stereo Microscope at the Carnegie Mellon School of Art)

Location

Ann Arbor, MI

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