saltines
This series unravels a narrative of self-worth and vanishing, told through the brittle body of a saltine cracker. Each print is a pause, a moment suspended mid-bite, capturing the slow erosion of a self shaped by judgment.
As a teenager, I rationed myself to one cracker a day, hoping its emptiness would speak the fullness of my ache. It was not just food it was ritual, restraint, a brittle confession held between teeth. A measure of control in a world that praised thinness and punished presence.
Screenprinted through layered monotypes, the crackers diminish print by print, echoing the silent persistence of eating disorders. Each image is a breath held in, a hunger swallowed. The work speaks to inherited expectations, especially in my culture, where body is often the first thing noticed, remarked upon, appraised.
This piece becomes a quiet altar to the parts of ourselves we offer up to be loved. It asks: what is left when the body is no longer ours, but theirs?