On Whose Shoulders We Stand Framed or Unframed?:Unframed

On Whose Shoulders We Stand Framed or Unframed?:UnframedOnce, before the age of man, a diversity of creatures thrived in the dappled shade of giants. The land was rich, green and self sustaining. But we felled the goliaths and burned away the life so we could plant rows and rows of sameness. Yet, deep below, in the ashes and loam, the ancestors await our collective enlightenment or our misguided annihilation with indifference. Medium: Color Reduction Woodcut Year: 2014 Edition Size: 16 Image Size: 18" x 6"

I hear a buzzing… a tiny

And so the work of life and living must be done with haste

It incorporates hand-collaged colored paper with a torn piece of an original proof from my Edge of Dark print edition

to witness the strange

Image Size: 3" x 3"

groundwater freezes upon emerging from its earthen source

a katydid leaps into flight and disappears into the light of the moon

I pause from my weeding duties to watch a little thief as she zips from one tomato flower to the next

vibrating through me like some primordial signal

On a cold night this past spring

I’ll admit their physical form may cause some to recoil

As the world warmed around them they ate all the new growth