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.