This series explores the deeply-troubling relationships between large powerful nations and their latest-hoped-for acquisitions. Both Taiwan and Ukraine are at different threat-levels in their struggles with China and Russia respectively. But they only need to look at how other world powers have treated their sister nations, such as with the long-neglected Puerto Rico, to know how bleak their futures truly are. They must continue to generate more and more waves of steady and through resistance. To illuminate this struggle, I created white line woodcuts that visualize their fight for freedom. The transitory nature of my prints made with watercolor paint “ink” works well to capture both my artistic method and my subject matter, as they are delicately fragile and all the more precious because of it.