Recitations—a series of multimodal copperplate etchings produced between St. Petersburg, FL, and Buffalo, NY in 2022–2023—extends this inquiry by integrating symbolic logics from cartomancy and astrology with experimental printmaking processes.

Grounded in my training in Ikebana at the Sogetsu School in Tokyo, I employ principles of asymmetry, negative space, and impermanence as compositional strategies. These formal devices operate as metaphors for balance and transformation, framing identity as a constellation in motion. By synthesizing the traditional craft of Sashiko embroidery with contemporary design, my work engages discourses on ritual, semiotics, and the phenomenology of perception.

Ultimately, these pieces function as visual epistemologies—systems that resist closure and invite interpretive agency, offering viewers a space to contemplate uncertainty, memory, and the unseen.

marie yoho dorsey

marie yoho dorsey