This work emanates from places long familiar to me. Scenes of marine and terrestrial animal life have been stalwart interests since early childhood. Heavily informed by the phenomenon of the natural world, my images draw from a rich palatte of zoological forms. In pairing traditional symbols with new elements, an ambigous language is conceived, one that is both familiar yet entirely new. This recombinant dialogue elicits a response of thorough investigation.
As a primary technique, copper etching allows both intricacy of detail and line, and the tangible suggestion of antiquity. These images are not depictions of the known world, yet are saturate with visual information, delicate lines representing seemingly specific places and times. As documentation of lands unfamiliar, the events unfolding in these images grant new discoveries and meanings with each subsequent viewing.