JOHANNA
Displayed at the Low Library Rotunda at Columbia University
Foundation, 2025
”The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”, 2025
silkscreen, acrylic, pencil, inkjet, and silver leaf on wooden blocks
44” x 16” x 2” in
(111.8 x 41.6 x 5 cm)
AP
Migration is an essential aspect of all living things.
We act in this manner because we must in order to survive. Because the place we used to call home is no longer a home. We endure this discombobulation for the time being, and we long for that comfortable embrace.
Melding, reforming, and resurrecting.
But no matter how much time passes, there will always be an absence and a desire for that place. A place where dreams of the past and the future coexist.
We are all migrants at some point in our lives.
During my school days, this phrase kept coming up, “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.” This pangram -a text that uses every letter of the alphabet- somehow embedded itself in my memory.
Constructed using wooden blocks. Here, I create a wall. Silkscreen-ed are images of two families crossing the barriers and border walls of the United States and Hungary. Painted stars, represent the ones found on the US and EU flag. Symbol of unification of states and nations. These elements, in combination, narrate and juxtapose the journey of these migrants as they take their leap towards a new place, a new language, a new culture, manuvering as the quick brown fox.
”The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog”, 2025
silkscreen, acrylic, pencil, inkjet, and silver leaf on wooden blocks
44” x 16” x 2” in
(111.8 x 41.6 x 5 cm)
AP
We act in this manner because we must in order to survive. Because the place we used to call home is no longer a home. We endure this discombobulation for the time being, and we long for that comfortable embrace.
Melding, reforming, and resurrecting.
But no matter how much time passes, there will always be an absence and a desire for that place. A place where dreams of the past and the future coexist.
We are all migrants at some point in our lives.