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“Polycephaly of the Soul / Pelt”

Split inseams lead to personal dissolution and reabsorption

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“MBTA”

Someone will know what that means

Intaglio hard ground etching with aquatint on Okawara paper

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“Seraphic”

A centerpiece for this sort of tryptic of sister prints

Intaglio hard ground etching with aquatint on Okawara paper

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“Roadside Beauty Queen”

Intaglio hard ground etching with open biting on Okawara paper

Really I don’t know what Kermit the frog thinks of all this

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“You are an Attendant at my Funeral / The Mourner”

Portraits for my living memorial

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“Deity Iteration I” whopping fella

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“Solaces / Sols” the space between life and death where being lost turns you into something to be followed

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“Field Dressing” linoleum relief printed on an offset press (mailander my beloved beast)

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“Furoshiki” pulled these birds out of silk but the beadwork was retained in the process I guess

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“Molting / angel vii”

Mutated this swan and it got reaaal long and many wing-ed

I would like to express my sincere thanks to the group of swan enthusiasts whose labeled pictures of swans made me giggle while I researched, your dedication to proper feather nomenclature is appreciated

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“Cobweb”

Roots of the red flowering highway tree (they invade my garden) some stripped of bark to be bones white strung with beads

A dewy spiders daydream?

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“Morphos”

An unerring certainty that as you watch a butterfly drop and dry from its chrysalis, it watches you back…

Consider this a sort of drop down menu on the business proceedings of butterflies as well as their athleticism

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Come take a gander at my goose (haha)

I was watching a video of Turkish women holding the geese they've bred their whole lives as a source of income and kinda got lost in the imagery of a goose on a bright red Persian rug

The rugs my own creation but I was looking at the shapes and borders and colors of actual ones

the black is a deep blue but the red makes cameras angry so it's hard to see

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Linocut portrait of my ex sleeping

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“Lovers/Wilt”

Ah, how sad, the creeping rot of a soul, who has lost her sense of reality, to a lover (wilted beau) who isn’t who she seeketh so (Psyche doth thou cradle this looming floral bloom, as if your lover Eros, who fate has woven from the loom)

Big linoleum diptychs - about 30” by 40” inches - mmmm scratchy eraser lines

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Rot

Is the obsession with birds transforming? Perhaps. Blame pterosaur fossils and the Museum of Natural History (no really, it’s all their fault)

Want to make an Icarus along these lines - golden yellow golden yellow dripping vibrant blood

Sometimes it really is all about the steely grey metallic shimmer of the sea, the sky, and feathers

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“Untitled (Angel)”

Iterations of wings… fold me a thousand oriziru that will rustle their paper feathers and carry me off into the night and leave me in the depths of the sea

More geese! Goose. Goosen. A goose to combat art block and the incessant feeling that one has forgotten how to paint after not doing so for a few weeks…

Someone bully me into using more colors I used five colors total for this and I have so much paint I could be using it’s Ridiculous