Mitchell Poon

MFA Printmaking

Through You I Will Feel

Through You I Will Feel is an installation exploring my family’s archive and my relationship with my ancestral heritage. An abstracted simulation of my childhood home’s dining room, it examines how revisiting the family archive can reveal new information not only about the past, but also about the present and the future. The installation consists of five main works made with various printmaking and print-adjacent processes such as lithography and serigraphy printing on paper, cyanotype and natural toning on fabric, inkjet-printing on shrink plastic, UV sensitive dye-printing on polymer clay tiles, sound, and digitally printed wallpaper.

The title of this work refers to the last lines of a poem my father wrote shortly before he passed in which he encourages us to live on in his stead. It serves not only as a reminder that he lives on through my family and I, but that through the practice of art making and examining the archive we can connect with something greater than ourselves.

Close up image of dark blue fabric quilt with faces on it, with green tiles with photographic portraiture on top of it.

Homecoming
2026
Cyanotype on cotton fabric; toned with coffee and quilted together with thread; UV sensitive dye on polymer clay; UV resin
90x90"

Green bench in a park. A half in-focus man sits on the bench. In the center there is a circle with a monochrome moth.

Mothholes I
2024
Silkscreen and mezzotint on BFK Rives paper
12x12"

Close up image of black and white paper tiles that each have a portrait of a man in glasses.

Burden of Expectation
2025
Xeroxed polyester Pronto-Plates and yupo paper, metal jump rings, jewelry chain, dowel
76 x44"

Open book with criss-crossing slips of paper. The slips display a distorted and monochrome male portrait.

Genealogical Jiapus
2025
Artist books; puretch and letterpress printing on BFK Rives paper
4.5x5.75x0.75" (Closed); 5.75x25" (Open)
Variable Edition of 6 Flag Books

Double sided box against a white background that has a mirror inside of it. The edge of the box has a gold moth pattern.

24/28
2025
Handmade dos-a-clamshell box; mirror. 7.5 x7.5x3"
Edition of 1

A blue butterfly is centered in the image and surrounded by four sunset-colored flowers.

Until Tomorrow
2025
Stone lithography on BFK Rives paper
10x8"
Edition of 30

Jumping rabbit against a pattern of red knots and purple flower petals.

Suspended Hare
2025
Aluminum plate lithography, photo lithography, and dusting on BFK Rives paper
15 x 22"
Edition of 7

An open box against a white background containing red envelopes. Three envelopes are open and reveal slips of paper inside.

Bargaining
2025
100 handmade, linocut envelopes and blind embossed inserts encased in a handmade box; linocut and letterpress printing
5 x 6 x 3.75" (Box); 3.125 x 4.5" (Envelopes)
Edition of 1

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