This project explores the power of drawing and the creative process. Five random marks made on a blank plate serve as a jumping-off point resulting in this series of abstracted figures. It's part cloud-busting, part Rorschach test. The Five Line collection is comprised of lithographs (The Trials of the Golden Rat, a series of 13 images), drawings, and etchings.
In Search For Gold (or) Sowing the Seeds of Discord
2018 / Ink on coated paper / 18 x 21.5 inches
…And at Midnight, Upon None (or) The Fourth and Oft Forgotten Part of the Riddle
2018 / Ink on coated paper / 18 x 21.5 inches
The Allure of Heresy (or) Channeling Fred
2018 / Ink on coated paper / 18 x 21.5 inches
A Performance For Insects (or) Comeuppance
2018 / Ink on coated paper / 18 x 21.5 inches
Wings For Doris (or) A Desire to live Among a More Compassionate Species
2018 / Ink on coated paper / 18 x 21.5 inches
The Golden Rat (or) Of Very Minor Character
2020 / Vinyl and ink on backlit plexiglass panel, aluminum frame / 36 x 36 inches
A Hunter’s Lament (or) The Indignity of Can Openers
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (3 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
The Silver Spoon (or) You Poor Baby
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (3 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
Doe With Antlers (or) Flouting the Binary, Part 1
2019 / Lithograph on Paper (3 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
Anatomically, a Stag (or) Flouting the Binary, Part 2
2019 / Lithograph on Paper (3 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
The Swine King (or) An Abundance of Punica Granatum (Conceit)
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
Sweeping Out the Stables (or) To Clean Up After Kings
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
“Bird-bodied, girl-faced things… (or) …with hunger insatiable” (Virgil, Aeneid)
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
The Cretinous Bull (or) Serving Up Doctrine
2019 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
The Night Mare (or) Truth Will Out
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (3 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
Casting off the Bridle (or) Autonomy of Truth
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
The Dogs of Service (or) Watching Over Cattle
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
Deserting the Garden (or) The Graceful Three
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
Les Trois Lièvres (or) The Orchestration of Belief
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches
