Salted Snail Studio is the work of Jasper Alexander, a queer printmaker & various-media-dabbler based in Western Massachusetts.

Previously a hairstylist by trade, I picked up linocut printmaking after a decade-long hiatus from creating visual art. My prints contain the whimsical & uncanny in equal measure - they’re inspired heavily by folk tales, urban legends, stories told over dim light, and the gentle sort of magic interwoven into all of our hum-drum lives.

I like to make work with stories in mind. I try to treat my printmaking practice as just another narrative structure to communicate with other people, with the work itself, and especially with myself. The slow,deliberate movements of carving and the tedious patience of printing by hand leaves room for all sorts of stories to form, fall apart, be written anew.