Alzheimer's Angel

This was an idea that my friend the Rabbi had, and asked me to work on.  It is based on an old Jewish story that before we are born an angel comes and takes away our memories by touching us in that divot under the nose.  His thoughts were that Alzheimer's is like that.

This is probably one of my creepier images.  Basically I was working too much at the time (40 hour work week to pay the bills and 60 hours a week at the printshop to feed my soul and get ready for grad school)  In the upper section it says let's replace it with things that whir and go tick.  The image itself is wrapped in cling wrap, and there are copper rivets holding it in place.  Having to do with artificiality and loss of our more organic humanity.

Jon's Room of Death

This is one of my first lithographs, from a tech standpoint you can see that my stone wasn't perfectly level because it is lighter in the middle, although I was trying to work with that design wise.  This was the best one I managed to get off this, and it is newsprint.  As to content one of the unseen aspects of archaeology are the comparative collections, we have them for things like seed and bone.  We have them to help identify what we find, and as a controlled way of learning what different things mean.  Jon's Room of Death was the honorary title given to the processing room at the archaeology center.  Jon was by far the star of the archaeology department, and budding bones expert (I believe he went on for a doctorate at U of Tenessee where the body farm is).  No he didn't actually wear the surgical mask while processing animals.

Persephone

Maiko

Early Genesis

My interest in Genesis started with conversations with a strict Christian friend, who has a very literal interpretation of the Bible.  I had been studying Hebrew with the local rabbi, and decided to take a look at what the Hebrew said.  Personally I find a literal reading of the English translation very limiting and disappointing.  The Hebrew when read as more of a symbolic allegory is way more beautiful.

Heian

Lilith

Lilith was the old rabbis answer as to why the Hebrew of Genesis reads in regards to the creation of Adam.  It reads that G-d created them male and female.  This was well before any mention of Eve.  Rather than say that Adam was a hermaphrodite they created the female character of Lilith, and she was trouble.  Her name comes from the Hebrew word for night.  She ended up being expelled before Eve was created.  She became sort of a demon in Jewish folklore.  She was associated with the night of course and owls.  Some Jewish groups also believed that Lilith resided in mirrors, where she would wait to steal the souls of young women when they looked in the mirrors.

Feral

Jack Frost

Proof

This is a proof of my first encounter with sugar lift solution.

Lost

I could be mistaken, but I think I was trying out salt lift on this one.

Motorcycle

Cliff