Joshua Orr

Memphis, Tennessee

Discontentment

handmade cotton and flax paper

45/8 x 83/16 x 7/16 closed; 45/8 x 16¼ x 7/16 open

edition of 5

© 2011

$425

Discontentment documents my unsettled insecurities about calling any house my home, and that as a place of dwelling, it is not permanent. I struggle to accept and define what my home is, and what it means to have a home.

Letterpress printed text, pulp painted imagery, silk screen printed imagery, watermarking, letterpress printed imagery, and suminagashi marbling on hand made paper and bound using the drum leaf binding.

Joshua Orr is currently a student at Memphis College of Art in Memphis, Tennessee as a 2013 candidate for a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in printmaking and minor in art history.