Springing from the fields of package design and conceptual art, Monstress Activities addresses modern worries and hopes in a humorous, thought provoking way. This box set of 5 different “products” combine into one distinctly joyful and fun proposal for a different perspective on life. From the artist:

What Is Monstress?

Monstress is my name for a particular mode of thinking that helps me stay optimistic, productive, and just sane enough to function in these ridiculous times.

It began back in 1996, when I was studying to become a Mistress of Printmaking. I was making all kinds of work and trying to figure out what the word “artist” actually meant to me. By then, I’d already spent four years as a printmaker and had fallen hard for silkscreen and relief printing. The affordability, the immediacy, the gritty magic of it—it hooked me. Printmaking has a built-in legitimacy, a history of political expression that I couldn’t resist. And it was cheap enough to keep making without going hungry.

But I was getting tired of making diaristic work—all these coded images about my own life, adolescent growing pains disguised as art. I started wanting more: a bigger conversation, a broader message, some way to reach out and connect. Maybe even make the world a little less bleak in the process.

So I turned to the tools of mass persuasion. I studied propaganda, advertising, packaging design, and the western obsession with branding. If I wanted to share ideas, it made sense to learn the most effective vehicles for doing so. That led to digging into utopian theory, confidence games, placebo studies, and optical illusions—all in service of finding ways to spotlight quiet, subversive messages that might otherwise go unnoticed.

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