The first step is creating a form to fill the void of the surface of the plate. drawing a construct that fills the picture plane. This constructive process of drawing is equivalent to engineering planning projecting it is man controlling and readapting the environment to establish a social and cultural process that is primary.

     The destruction and distortion of this construct through the process of acid attacking metal is both the entropy that causes decay in all things and the reclamation of the natural process over the built environment. As in Durer's Melancholia, the sequence of images is representative of the finite quality of individual lives and of material. The continuation of the series on a new surface speaks about the infinite images produced by the individual imagination memory the nature of creativity and ideas to continue beyond their time.

     For more, see Jim Leedy's interview with Hugh.