Digging through a lexicon of symbols and imagery evoking American colonial times, folk art, and quilts, I reframe the dominant ideologies surrounding early history and domestic labor. My graphic cyphers denote the power and breadth of traditional women’s work, functional handicraft, and the impulse to create. Decoration and ornamentation become expressions of desire, signifiers of identity, and autobiographical documentation of lives omitted from text-based historical narratives and artistic discourse. This series of monoprints is made by overlapping laser cut paper stencils and layering transparent colored inks. Working intuitively through shape and color, each print tells a different story depending on how the stencils fall.