Dislocation was featured in the latest issue of the literary and art journal Generations, which is edited by my lovely friend, Kiala Givehand. 

Dislocation. Letterpress printed artist book. 2011.

But this was mine too, another part of my brain says. 

This ground was mine, and also that rock, 

and those waves were mine, and those trees. 

The hurricane winds and rain and flood were mine. 

The sun and the southern cross were mine. 

The food – the fa’i, the ulu, the taro, the nui – were mine. 

Atauloma especially was mine. 

They are yours too.

Dislocation. Letterpress printed artist book. 2011.

I was born on an island.

The island is a point of origin that I have been moving away from for many years. 

I consider and reconsider the ways that it has defined me. 

I make lists, I write poems, I write essay after essay. 

I write down these definitions and then I write new ones over those.

For the stick chart prints in Dislocation, I built my own stick charts out of reed and string. I scanned the charts and made polymer plates from the images, which were letterpress printed using a Vandercook press. These images are based on the idea of stick charts, and are not replicas of specific charts.