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Daphne, a wood nymph and the daughter of the river god, was about to be unwillingly captured by Apollo, Daphne begged her father to save her. He turned her into a laurel tree.
In California’s pre-colonial period, a total eclipse of the sun occurred causing the Chumash to dramatically interpreted and paint the event in a hillside cave.
Stylized figures from the Cyclades islands of a sea faring culture at the time of the earliest civilizations celebrated people rather than deities or royalty.
The Evil Eye is a talisman against malalignment of the stars, dangers of nature, unlucky happenstance, or even curses and targeted ill will.
This reduction print is patterned after the 1770 engraving of the Boston massacre. Saint John’s Church replaces the Massachusetts Courthouse, teargas replaces black powder smoke, and protesters fall before armed US soldiers instead of British Redcoats.
“Insurrection”, a hand-pulled reduction relief print, is a symbolic representation of the events of Jan 6, 2021. I use the dramatic exterior façade of the Capitol that witnessed most of the injuries to make clear to future viewers the importance of where they took place. The red caps of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) Trump following represent the thousands of rioting participants. I show a Confederate battle flag, of which many were present, in order to represent the White supremacist leadership. I show their violence against a Black police officer in reference to the nature of the historic divide. The clubs represent the hand-to-hand weapons used. The rioters also used such things as bludgeons, Tasers and strong chemical sprays against the largely unarmed police.
One person's dreams are anothers' nightmares - digital relief print
Adam was the wild man in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh who was created of clay and water by the goddess of creation to live with the animals of nature. The priestess of the goddess was later sent to civilize him.

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