Etching and Rewards of Uncertainty

Abstract

The process of etching is physical and elemental, requiring force and pressure, inviting aggression and then delicacy, conjoining fire, water, earth, and air. There is something about setting an image into metal that implies permanence, duration, and enduring presence, and I hope my images mirror the medium in that sense. I embrace themes of loss, futility, destruction, and unexpected, redemptive beauty, themes tied to the tradition of printmaking, whose imagery has always tended toward critical commentary and serious contemplation, and often toward humor and irony as well.

Fail; fail again; fail better - Samuel Beckett

No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy - Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke