-PrintCollection — Lorraine Cruz

Print Collection(2018-2025)
SilkScreen, Cyanotype, Textile, PrintStudio

This Wine Vault assistant will recommend wine pairings based on food and guest preferences, providing extensive information about the wine and its winery. It aims to bridge the gap between traditional wine culture and digital technology, catering to both enthusiasts and industry professionals. The challenge posed is how to streamline data collection in an industry resistant to technology, proposing integration of online data fetching with citations for accuracy. This approach promises to expedite processes for restaurant management and make wine knowledge more accessible beyond traditional barriers of class status.

Activated Patterns (2020)

NAME: ACTIVATED PATTERNS
DATE: 2020
MEDIUM: TAPESTRY

Linen dyed with Weld & Eastern Brazilwood,54 X 63 in.

Screen Printing This tapestry signifies recognition and validation of my own personal healing journey. Understanding that the cycle of life is based on learned loops of reactions, feelings & thoughts. How these can be triggered but they can change and be activated patterns that one is not afraid of but rather aware of and not be shameful of.

Deeply in my feels (2020)

NAME: DEEPLY IN MY FEELS
DATE: 2020
MEDIUM: HANDKERCHIEF

Handkerchief Series,21 X 21 in.

Screen Printing Fabric printing & halftone study –This body of work is an externalization of how opposing parts of me can live in harmony.

Walk me Through It (2020)

NAME: WALK ME THROUGH IT
DATE: 2020
MEDIUM: HANDKERCHIEF

Handkerchief Series, 21 x 21 in.

This Handkerchief shows imagery from a body of work called “Walk me Through it”. The phrase signifies the act of being present and holding space for oneself and others in moments of intense emotions, feelings, thoughts, & experiences. It's a reminder of unconditional love & impermanence.

Walk me Through It (2019)

NAME: WALK ME THROUGH IT
DATE: 2019
MEDIUM: GARMENT

This shirt shows imagery from a body of work called “Walk me Through it”. The phrase signifies the act of being present and holding space for oneself and others in moments of intense emotions, feelings, thoughts, & experiences. It's a reminder of unconditional love & impermanence.

AVOID (2021)

NAME: AVOID
DATE: 2021
MEDIUM: SCREEN PRINTING

10 x 16.25 in Mixed Media: Screen Printing, India ink, paint, etching

Abolish Ice (2020)

NAME: ABOLISH ICE
DATE: 2020
MEDIUM: SCREENPRINTING

Abolish Ice

Bound (2019)

NAME: BOUND
DATE: 2019
MEDIUM: PRINT SERIES

This print reflects and highlights the ongoing conversation of relational boundaries in our society. We are so inundated with messages from social media about oneself, how to process emotions, how to create boundaries, who to love, who to hate, who to praise and cancel. So many of these messages have the intent to direct a person on the “right” track, but rather I see them as feeding people how to think, what to think, how to treat people and how to define relationships.

e, myself & I (2019)

NAME: ME, MYSELF & I
DATE: 2019
MEDIUM: PRINT SERIES

Screen Printing This set of prints are an attempt at externalizing my process of unlearning during therapy. One of my main coping mechanisms was creating symbolic/metaphorical maps, mapping out the different types of selves I could identify; “liberated self”, “unlearning self”, “critical self”. Each of these prints signify the beginning of mapping out who I am and who I am becoming and the self as process.

Leave ~ Reclocate(2019)

NAME: LEAVE ~ RELOCATE
DATE: 2019
MEDIUM: PRINT SERIES

This print was based on a tweet during the coverage of the concentration camps for kids of Mexican and other Latin American immigrants who were being detained, killed, violated & mistreated at the US border. Seeing the ways in which this country and planet have allowed deep trauma to sip into our current reality left me wanting to leave and relocate. Where? Still searching.

Something New (2020)

NAME: SOMETHING NEW
DATE: 2020
MEDIUM: CERAMIC SCULPTURE

This piece is based on the map in the piece titled “Leave ~ Relocate”, it marks the begging of a potential journey of bringing my maps and erratic shapes to 3-Dimensional points of view.