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The Unaccountable Absence of the Wastrel
ink on paper, 12" x 10", 2011
This piece is about losing yourself.
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Cuckoo's Promise
ink on paper, 10 " x 12", 2011
I've always been intrigued by stories where people are seduced into entering some magical place. It never ends well. I had just finished The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt when I did this piece.
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Jabberwocky
ink on paper, 9" x 12", 2010
"One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back."
Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll, 1872
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Earthstar
ink on paper, 9" x 12", 2010
Earthstar was inspired by my garden, which other than the studio and the library is my favourite place to hang out. Earthstars are tiny little fungi that pop up there on a pine needle path. From that I drew this piece which is about growth and decay; one thing moving on to become to nuture what comes after.
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Inx
ink on paper, 8" x 12", 2010
The artist and sphinx are combined in a form that suggests a question mark and therefore a riddle. The artist's hands are brushes, suggesting that he has drawn himself into existence in an effort to find meaning and truth.
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Awakening
ink on paper, 9" x 12", 2009
The moment before waking is pictured here from the odd perspective of a third person within the dream. A hand reaches out (or in) to awaken the sleeper. Another sleeper is depicted in the dream, to indicate levels of sleep. Our dreamer is in a liminal space between full consciousness and deep sleep, which mimics death.
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Murder in the Court of the Katydid King
ink on paper, 8" x 12", 2009
In this image I created a narrative existing in world where plants and animal forms combine and blur. Though inspired by existing forms from things like insects, fungus and plants, the forms are entirely imaginary.
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Chimera
ink on paper, 35" x 45", 2009
In Chimera, the macro and micro coexist in one simultaneous experience. There are some clues to scale but these quickly collapse under scrutiny. The Chimera itself is a reinterpretation of the idea of a chimera rather than a strict traditional representation of a Chimera. Chimeras are symbolic of catastrophe and breathe fire. In this case the Chimera breathes a life-giving fire which ignites the fecundity of nature causing an explosion of limitless form. In this, the Chimera is also Proteus which can tell the future but changes form repeatedly to avoid having to do so.
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The Dust Mill
ink on paper, 12" x 9", 2009
This image is a meditation on the passage of time. It started with a sketch of the pregnant figure on the left. The last addition was the sowbug over the head of the figure of death, representing the imposibility of hiding from time's passage, throught the appendages tentatively emerging from beneath the armor.
The piece is 12" x 9" and done in the pointist style using a Rapidograph pen. Each square inch of this image took approximately 1 hour to complete.
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The Bellman,
ink on paper, 9" x 12", 2009
I have had tinnitus since a very nasty childhood fever stole the hearing in one ear. The Bellman is about tinnitus and deafness. The Y shape of the Bellman represents the process of interpreting sound, deciding it is one thing or the other. The secondary left hand figure attempts to hear, his form a misinterpretation. On the right, the deaf girl cannot hear the cry of the child in her arms, not realizing it is no child at all.
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