"Long Way Down"

Woodcut (3 color reduction)
4" x 6"(image) 5.5" x 7.5" (paper)
Oil-based inks on Stonehenge paper
Edition of 4
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I never meant for things to go this way.

"My Little Friend"

Woodcut (3 color reduction)
4" x 6"(image) 5.5" x 7.5" (paper)
Oil-based inks on Stonehenge paper
Edition of 4
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Now see, I've done a fantastic magic trick for you. I have shrunk this elephant down to the size of a chipmunk. Like a parrot, he's perch on my arm. See him raise his once great trunk and squeak in greeting. How clearly we glimpse the truth, so backward and bizarre to our natural inclinations; the monkey masters the giant.

"Couch Surfers"

Woodcut (3 color reduction)

4" x 6"(image) 5.5" x 7.5" (paper)

Oil-based inks on Stonehenge paper

Edition of 4

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A hippo is staring at me in my living room.

His aquatic minions scattered all around.

What should be slimy is dry.

What should be sharp is soft.

What should be grey and wrinkled is smooth, powdery-blue and covered with happy, evenly-spaced polka dots.

What are these creatures doing on my sofa?

"Wild Ride"

Woodcut (3 color reduction)

4" x 6"(image) 5.5" x 7.5" (paper)

Oil-based inks on Stonehenge paper

Edition of 4

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When I first conceived of this image, I imagined a sort of surreal balance between the stillness of two floppy, soft toys hanging loose off a wooden horse, and an avalanche of dollies dropping from their galloping steed.

Now what I see is a rhythmic, diagonal, and quiet sort of composition, presented in a calm and cheerful color scheme. I am bored.

I think I need to get a new block and make this image again.

"The Kill"

Woodcut (3 color reduction)

4" x 6"(image) 5.5" x 7.5" (paper)

Oil-based inks on Stonehenge paper

Edition of 4

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They had eyed each other from opposite ends of the toy box for some time now, one trembling with fear, the other salivating with hunger. Not unlike a mouse thrown into the cage of a snake who is not yet hungry, but will be soon enough.

Bellies rumble, and what must be done, must be done. It should be acknowledged, however, that there is no sport in this sort of kill.

"Spots and Stripes"

Woodcut (3 color reduction)

4" x 6"(image) 5.5" x 7.5" (paper)

Oil-based inks on Stonehenge paper

Edition of 4

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At first I didn't notice when I glanced in your direction. The patterns in your coats blended into that crazy quilt backdrop, and my brain read it like a Kandinsky or African textile. But once I did notice, your forms became clear. You, leopard, perched on top of you, tiger, like some kind of savage, feline totem pole. Standing still and staring straight ahead, are you even aware of each other? Is perhaps leopard hiding from tiger in "plain view", or vice versa? If you turn your heads to meet my gaze, will you believe I can see you, too, or will you continue to assume your camouflage is effective, as does a black cat gazing out from a shadowy corner?

"Death By Honey"

Woodcut (3 color reduction)

4" x 6"(image) 5.5" x 7.5" (paper)

Oil-based inks on Stonehenge paper

Edition of 4

Available for purchase here.

Starting a new series of color woodcuts featuring toys as subject matter. Hugable predators, tiny babies, monkeys with long floppy arms... Such bizarre things. Think I'll do at least nine of these little 4" x 6" ones, probably within the next few weeks.

A swarm of bees hover over the bodies. Two more victims of gluttony. Brought to the ground, not by sting, but sweet.