The Altered Chorus BFrom the Artist [The purpose for my art is] to produce the stimulus for the viewer to discover themselves. Once the son of an English professor at school askedwhat my work was like. I told him they were marks and small linear forms jumping, moving, and dancing in space. Some are very immediate and spontaneous, some are controlled, but all marks are ordered in some sort of visual environment. In my drawings and watercolors, the marks superimpose

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modeled closely after Martin's cousin is a keeper of roots

and Simone Martini—I realize that

The diamond is a universal symbol of luminosity

I teach printmaking and I am the print shop manager at Penn

It is my way of honoring

typically weaving personal experience with images selected from media

brush in hand

the other of a tumor

Having and raising babies is work

TheChildren of Middle Passage Series is such a body of work

Positive-acting plates capture the image drawn on mylar or photographic transparency directly