Torso is a series of 9 stages of a sequential etching 24"x36". I had recently read the book The Body in Pain by E. Scarry describing how people are tortured. The book covered the physiological and physical abuse that prisoners face. I began with a drawing from an old anatomy book of a headless torso and preceeded to beat, grind and attack the image transforming it. What frightened me was that in my "abuse" of the image it became more beautiful, I showed the work once at the Leedy Voulkos Art Center then put the series away and have not seen it since 1991.