Welcome Home

Eli WildWelcome HomeRisograph Print8.5" x 11" Eli Wild is an Oakland-based painter and printmaker exploring how fear, memory, and meaning take shape in the uncanny. This series fuses the visual language of medieval illuminated manuscripts with the exaggerated world of B-horror films, both reflecting the anxieties of their time through distortion, humor, and the grotesque. This piece steps away from horror and into comfort. Welcome Home imagines my cat as the quiet guardian of a medieval city, a steady presence with many moods: curious, mysterious, loving, and strange. It’s about the feeling of returning to something that sees you, accepts you, and softens the world around you. This is a risograph print. Risograph printing is a process that uses a specialized Japanese print machine to layer vibrant soy-based inks through stencil-like templates onto paper. The inks smudge if touched.