We must admit there will be music despite everything, 2026.
Intaglio, relief, monotype.
39 1/2 x 30.
AFTER
The War
and
Hokusai (Phoenix)
and
Jack Gilbert (A Brief for the Defense)
The underneath is the first devil, 2025. Monotype with collagraph and collage on Evolon, 40 x 30 inches.
AFTER
Runit Dome, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands
AND
Marie Howe (Magdalene – The Sevin Devils)
“…The underneath. That was the first devil. It was always with me
And that I didn’t think you—if I told you—would understand any of this—“
The surface of the earth and the figments of the mind, 2025. Monotype, collagraph, and collage on Evolon.
40 x 30 inches.
AFTER
Philip Guston (Stationary Figure)
and
Robert Smithson (A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects)
and
The Cinder Lake Crater Field (Arizona Lunar Analog Test Site)
The earth gets a new skin, 2026. Collagraph, drypoint, printed collage, and monotype on Evolon.
30 ½ x 39 ½ inchesAFTER
Levi Walter Yaggy (Geological Chart from the 1893 edition of Yaggy’s Geographical Portfolio)
AND
Francisco de Goya (El sueño de la razón produce monstruos, from Los Caprichos, 1799)
AND
Teilhard de Chardin (The Phenomenon of Man, 1955)
“…we have the beginning of a new age. The earth 'gets a new skin'. Better still, it finds its soul."
The deeper order obscured by the surface, 2024. Relief, transfer, monotype and collage on Evolon. 24 x 18 inches.
The awful spirits of the deep, 2025. Collagraph, relief, monotype, and collage on Evolon.
40 x 29 ½ inches.
AFTER
Wols - Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (The Blue Phantom, 1951)
and
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
and
Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Ocean)
The first time a name was sown in the earth, 2025. Monotype with collagraph and collage on Evolon.
60 x 43 inches.
AFTER
Paul Klee (Angeles Novus)
and
North American petroglyphs
and
Anne Michaels (The Winter Vault)
No vestige of a beginning no prospect of an end, 2025. Collagraph, printed collage, archival inkjet, monotype on Evolon.
39 ¼ x 29 ½ inches.
AFTER
James Hutton (Theory of the Earth, 1788)
AND
Picasso (Guernica)
AND
Fossilized human footprints, 23,000 years old, White Sands, New Mexico
A stick figure clobbering the heavens, 2025. Collagraph, relief, monotype, collage on Evolon.
39 ¼ x 29 ½ inches.
AFTER
Annie Dillard (For the Time Being)
and
Desert kites - megalithic structures built by humans to trap herds of roaming animals, dating back to 7000 BCE or earlier, found in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and all over West Asia, detected only by aerial view from planes and satellites in the last 100 years
A frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, 2025. 59 x 44 inches.
Monotype, collagraph, and printed collage on Evolon.
AFTER
Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek)
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.
and
The Nevada National Security Sites (NNSS), formerly the Nevada Test Site
and
Pablo Picasso (Guernica, detail)
