The subject matter integrated into my prints is inspired from the personal history of my family; a number of pieces I have asembled include remnants of photographs and themes stemming from familial accounts concerning the genocide of the Armenian people at the dawn of the twentieth century, a moment in history marred by the senseless political extermination of countless innocent lives. The landscapes in my current work extend on this theme through the representation of the cyclical nature of genocide and war. I am interested in how historically these themes are repeated through time and across cultures. Each landscape is a fusion of several fragments of photographs documenting atrocity in war. I crop the original photographs, removing all bodies and all identifiable objects—focusing only on the landscape in the background. The images are obscured and distorted through the process of moving each image through several media—the images originate pixilated from the internet, are printed and then re-scanned. Each image is then fused, creating a continual cyclical landscape and then finally printed on Japanese paper.