CLEAR Clinic
Migration is Sacred

The CLEAR Clinic at Portland Community College works with students for housing justice, immigration justice, and criminal record relief. They wanted a hand-illustrated graphic for t-shirts and posters. The image prompts were “Migration is Sacred”, “Possibility Growing”, and The Abolitionist Movement. I sketched images dealing with breaking chains and locks with nature reclaiming brittle and rusted systems. The Monarch butterfly is also a symbol of strength, endurance and renewal of life. The specs included text using American Typewriter to mimic legal paperwork using a modern magenta color that is also used in the flowers of the design.

A secondary illustration was also presented depicting a bouquet of flowers growing from stems of chains.