Saged 2022 Dimensions 4’x 10.5’ x 2” Materials: BFK Rives Paper, archival inks, purell, inkjet transparent paper, natural wood “The relation of what we see and what we know is never settled. We know that earth is turning away from the sun, yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight". -John Berger, Ways of Seeing Saged examines self-acceptance through the topics of psychology, physiology, social-economic positioning, and the undoing of parentification. I primarily work with photography, printmaking, and alternative processes within those two mediums. In this work, I use hand sanitizer to alternatively print/transfer analog and digital portraits of the youth coming of age during the pandemic to traditional printmaking paper. The sanitizer works as an agent of imperfect transference between the perfect image and the final representation. In addition to the traditional portraits, I asked the children to bring significant objects and scanned them to create psychological portrait collages. Sanitized Youth speaks about how this generation of young children’s memory, habits, and core traits have all been shaped by the pandemic. What does this mean for their future mental and physical aging and how they perceive the world? This project captures the demographic mentioned above through expressive portraits, and objects of importance to help us better document the experience of this generation.