All or Nothing contextualizes the lottery through the narrative lens of Christianity and portrays traditional iconographies through contemporary printmaking methodologies, to reflect personal, spiritual, social, and commercialized contexts.
For this body of work, I use discarded lottery tickets as a medium for collage and assemblage. In layering tickets one upon another, they are amalgamated and reactivated as a metaphorical geologic record of a community seeking hope and escape from drudgery. I also examine the value assigned to printed ephemera and explore themes of faith, fate, chance, and probability, equating each individual ticket to a prayer from its player.
In reclaiming and repurposing tickets as votive tokens, I also seek to transform the gallery into a space akin to a chapel, in which viewers may reflect upon their own wishes, wants and priorities, while also considering the unrealized hopes and dreams of countless everyday workers essential to this exhibition.
