Chronicles

“First Image” Downloadable or View PDF

First Etching

Artistic breakthroughs come from many places. Ways of channeling creative energy arise from a myriad of influences, which vary for every person. Many times, it can be difficult for an artist to determine which way to go to develop an idea. Some ideas seem to emerge completely on their own, almost as if artists were following something outside themselves. Ideas can take on a life of their own. For artists working and discovering their creative paths, others’ work and methods can be instrumental in developing a personal methodology, especially in the media of printmaking, which can seem prohibitively technical.

Western Garden

The Western Garden suite reflects this landscape, of abuse, ownership, more abuse, profit and toxic waste. It was the landscape I had lived in and inherited. A landscape that does not support community, society, or life. It is a huge industrial pile of rubble, a society that profited and left these immense spaces behind, empty, and unusable. Yet retaining a sculptural magnificence, and intimidating beauty. Like Ginsberg’s Sunflower Sutra there in the shadow of the industrial waste dump is beauty.

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Dark Woods Downloadable or View PDF

Dark Woods

Dark Woods is roughly based on the first chapters of Dante’s Inferno in which Dante is lost in a dangerous dark forest moving without direction in fear and terror. The Kinvad Bridge was based on the myth of a bridge in the Quran. In this story, a soul tries to cross to get to Jannah and the bridge narrows to the thinness of a razor then shakes the pilgrims off into the abyss.