Growing up mixed-race in America during the golden age of television, I rarely saw love that looked like mine. The love stories shown to me were filtered through narrow lenses—misrepresented, idealized, and often excluding people like me.

This printmaking series revisits and reclaims those early impressions. Using magazine clippings discovered in the most unexpected place—a thrift store in the woods of Indiana—I found a forgotten scrapbook compiled by a pop culture-obsessed teen from the 1960s. The images spoke to me. As both a printmaker and an energy worker, I felt an intuitive pull: these fragments of nostalgia had unfinished business.

Through this series, I explore lovesick motifs, mediated memories, and the cultural ephemera that shaped my early ideas of romance. This is a dialogue across time—between that scrapbook, my lived experience, and the imagined possibilities of love.

Enjoy.