Never shared a bottle, too afraid of the rum is a combination between the traditional parts of my practice that include papermaking and the digital parts that are part of my printmaking practice. The title and subject matter are my ideas of exploring the ideas of traditional familial milestones in American culture and how they are reflected within the present of our modern reality. In which the ideas of nuclear family units and the accomplishments of the American household and the ‘American Dream’ are so far out of reach regardless of how hard groups of people will try to accomplish it. By reusing the figure of the heads within the background of the papermaking piece and the foreground of the digital print I’m better able to tie the narrative together between two different materials that are also typically complete opposites of one another. The images follow the sequence of 13, 13.2, 13.3 and 13.4