Dan Talib Latif Flounders

I am a socio-political printmaker who represents daily personal experiences, image associations, and representations of Islamophobia. I see printmaking as a community-based, conversational, and approachable form of art-making. My work is representative of a man amidst change: conversion to a new way of life, new religious practice, marriage, and reflecting on my familial relationships before and after conversion. Though I converted to Islam after moving to Baltimore, MD in 2019, I had an early interest since high school in my childhood bedroom in Allentown, PA. Culturally, my transformation is an oddity within Euro-American society and my original Irish Roman Catholic roots.

My work pulls from formal mark-making methods to hide the medium of print by mimicking marker, ink wash, and crayon textures. I use symbolic and iconographic imagery to portray my experiences within Euro-Catholic roots, dismantling and unlearning what I was taught, and rebuilding a practice of my own through Islam with the support of my Muslim wife. I use primary colors to introduce unfamiliar audiences to content that is new to me as well (as a recent covert to Islam) just as a child would be introduced to these colors for the first time.

I am crafting my own world based on mentally and physically reflecting on my Irish heritage while finding where Islam fits in a community that doesn’t respect the practice of my new faith. With these values of color and printmaking in mind, the medium lends itself well to sharing stories outside of my Euro-Catholic American heritage.

Associations Untitled #1:
Family, Islam, and American News
Ink wash and zamzam water paintings
on cotton paper
24 x 28 • $1250

Associations Untitled #2:
Love & Future Family
Ink wash and zamzam water paintings
on cotton paper
24 x 28 • $1250

Associations Untitled #3:
Institutions and Foundations to Islam
Ink wash and zamzam water paintings
on cotton paper
24 x 28 • $1250

Altar of Information
Book installation • NFS