AngelaFrom the Artist On the recommendation of Hitoshi Nakazato, I applied for an artist residency. While I have a great deal of experience in intaglio printing, my experience in color lithography was very limited. I decided to make an image of my girlfriend, "Angela", sitting very upright on the couch. My work in painting and print deals almost exclusively with the human figure and the interaction between myself and the sitter and the psychology of being

an offset lithograph in an edition of 100

Ingwer I-IV

are weavings from different spaces

The practice of the laying of hands is usually on a person's head to confer a spiritual blessing (as in Christian ordination

I treat through years of trial and error and personal aesthetic

offers glimmers of her inner sanctum through poetic interpretations of earth

This image gifted me with the strength to survive

accessed 6-25-2021

The fragmented body hovering in space and scripted text are characters in this work

in an object

It acts as a living connector between cosmic

often drawn and redrawn so often that they change a great deal from the initial interpretations