I am fascinated by natural forms that are bizarre and solitary. Using the printmaking technique of mezzotint, I depict solemn forms that hover in fields of black. These relics observed in solitary natural places, outspan our much shorter lives and are gradually changed by the forces of nature. Like the objects singled out, each print represents a quiet epoch in time: a singular moment in a long progression of the earth’s churning.

Mezzotint is a slow process of working with metal to create tonal variations in an image. This demanding process reflects the wearing down of stone as copper is meditatively roughened to create a velvety surface. The copper is then burnished or flattened to create the image that will be transferred to paper. This long process is both laborious and intimate. The time spent studying the object being depicted reveals their obscurity, ominosity and beauty.