These 12" x 16" prints are made one at a time by the artist on Ilford Smooth Gloss Pearl paper with archival 8 color Epson inks.
ANGEL HOME 12 x 16 Print
Growing up, my mother told me the story of sitting with her father in the hospital the day he died. He said "I hope an angel will come and slap me on the cheek and take me home."
In one of the last conversations we had, my Mom talked again of the angel, only this time it was coming to take her home. Her sudden and unexpected death devastated me unlike any event I have experienced.
In the days following her death, I thought of the this story. I wondered what that Angel looked like to her and I rendered this. The angel, coming out of the light to take her home, is meant to be a little scary and also beautiful.
DRESS GREEN 12 x 16 Print
This print is from a larger piece originally used for a couture creation.
COLOUR STARS 12 x 16 Print
COLOUR STARS, a variation in the Star of David and Creation Star series, was originally rendered in 2004.
ANKH 12 x 16 Print
The Ankh is the Egyptian symbol for everlasting life...the yin-yang is the Taoist symbol for balance....putting the two together is for balance through life, through eternity. The open ended hallway is an allusion to the Old English metaphor of life. A bird flying in the darkness enters the window of a tavern; inside with people, warmth, food, light, that is life. The bird flys on through the tavern out the other window, back into the darkness, into the unknown,death. In the picture we see only in the hallway of time.We don’t know what is beyond the doorway. If you look carefully, you will see that the shadows of the two ankhs overlap slightly as if they were holding hands.
This is reminiscent of Robert Fulgrum’s “All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarden” book where here says: “And for goodness sake hold hands and stick together. :> The swirling patterns on the wall originated in video feedback and suggest an open loop or the self repeating patterns of fractal mathematics.
ANGEL CAM 12 x 16 Print
Angel Cam speaks to feelings we often have of being trapped in a given situation or relationship. The purple enclosure looks like a cage, but upon closer, or perhaps further inspection we see the shape of an Angel's wings. And we must remember we are forever enveloped in loving grace, whether we understand or not.
