I was inspired to make prints while on a trip to Florence in 2012, where I saw some exquisite woodblock prints by Pietro Parigi. Subsequently, I came home and plunged into this new practice without pause. I still delight in the stark imagery of black and white, the concision of line and the need for heightened narrative in order to convey the message.
Tap Root
Rage of the Matriarchs
Kentucky Women
Symbiosis
Tahara
Or Panecha (Abstract)
Tree Community
Or Panecha (Flame)
Underwater Cures
Collaboration
Many cultures have a catastrophic flood origin story. In Torah, Noah’s ark saves human and animal life, swaying for forty days and nights amidst the deluge.
God created a watery expanse above the realms and great waters below the realms. The wonder of these endless expanses of watery masses has a cosmic and immeasurable quality. Between them, God formed the space where our world exists.
The waters saved the infant Moses by concealing him in
an ark amongst the reeds. Miraculously, the baby is
found by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised in their Royal court to become a powerful sage and leader.