Prints! (about time)

"Dont Look"
This is a piece I worked on during the summer.   Most of my work deals with problems or challenges I work through.  This is one of many and is filled with different images that I was dealing with at the time.  This is the first large plate that I have worked with using mezzotint and drypoint.  I worked from dark to light- 2011

This is a brain spill.  I took a day and decided to let everything out on my mind all at once and this came out as an explosion of different images. This is a combined drypoint and mezzotint - 2011

This is dealing with certain human emotions and behaviors being taken over by another emotion that  not so  desirable.
An example would be trust being taken over by jealousy.  A mezzotint and drypoint-2011

"Now Do You See?"
One of my first mezzotints.  I had done something that resulted in someone very important in my life walking away.  It was a moment where I had to really look at myself and see what I was really doing,  Unfortunately it shows that moments like that are the only thing to force us to change.  Drypoint and mezzotint- 2011

"Unemployed"
I was experimenting with mezzotint and aquatint.  This was the last time I used acid. I had aquatinted the entire plate but and scraped away everything but the garbage can. I went back in and added mezzotint where I wanted it and drypoint.  It was interesting how they worked together.  This is sorta a funny print.  In la crosse we have a ton of squirrels and they eat our garbage popping out of garbage cans.  I decided that it would be an interesting thought if all the garbage cans in the city were padlocked what the squirrels would do.  - 2011

"Waiting"
This was me counting the days of someone not being around.  Leave that one at that.  - 2010

"Release"
This was my first print after my baby series! This was  when I realized how much I could use print to work through things and expose human experiences.  In this case I guess to put it 'lightly' betrayal and how we sit here and think about all of this as time passes.  These odd line guys that I have in the print is continued through most of my prints.  They are these things that I associate and connect with as being bad not evil but in that way sorta.  They are there and hang there and just represent that crap that we have around. - 2009