ARTERIAL
Silkscreen print, recycled cotton rag
24 x 18 inches, 2025
JMe approaches language as a substance under pressure. Text is compressed, layered, and reorganized into dense visual fields where words hover between legibility and abstraction. Meaning lingers rather than declares itself, surfacing through rhythm, spacing, and accumulation. These works are not read in a single pass; they unfold slowly, rewarding sustained attention and keeping interpretation fluid and unresolved.
Developed through studio practice and extended into public space, the work reflects an ongoing interest in how language circulates, fragments, and settles within contemporary environments. Whether encountered on a wall, within an installation, or across the urban landscape, the compositions hold a quiet tension between intimacy and scale, precision and disruption. Language is no longer a tool for instruction, but a material presence—inviting viewers to move through meaning by way of looking, pausing, and staying.
