My prints are transmutations of self portraits; a processing and filtering of the world through printmaking processes and the lens of the Sci-Fi/fantasy universes that taught me more about morality, compassion, and curiosity than I ever learned from my conservative upbringing. 

Printmaking is a deeply contemplative practice with long stretches of time inviting introspection. I see my work as a visual diary, safe from prying eyes and difficult conversations that arise with the discovery of a written diary. The act of changing the self in the portrait - to a space faring cat or a monstrous form - allows the viewer to enter my narrative, to insert themselves within the story as one might with a favored movie or book. 

Mimi King is a printmaker and collage artist living and working in Richmond, VA with her trusty studio cats, Captain Catnip and Clementine, and her husband. She teaches relief and intaglio printmaking and 2D Design & Color Theory at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.