vade mecum

ok. so it's been almost forever since i posted on here last and, of course, a lot has happened. but i'm not going to get into all of that, at least not now. suffice it to say that i've decided to make a go of this whole blogging thing, get some of my art up gradually, and send some of my rambling thoughts out into the great wild blue.

at least initially, this is not going to be very chronological, art-wise. there's some catching up to do, and i don't particularly feel like being very organized about it, nor do i see a need for chronological organization. there is a time and a place for that, but generally i think that artwork should only adhere to such things when there is a persuasive rational for doing so, and otherwise should follow whatever more hidden, internal order there may be.

and so, to begin this new phase of my vade mecum, i give you my bones. this is a series of Lith prints i made of specimens that i found in the zoological museum where i've worked for the last year and a half or so. they also comprise my first show, and are on display on the first floor of the Health Sciences building at the University of Montana.

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the inspiration for this series came in a mix of forms, the primary one being an obsession with bones and structure initiated by the discovery last fall of a bone tumor in my femur. that has since been taken care of, the tumor was removed, and i am continuing the longer and infinitely life affirming process of relearning how my legs work and retraining my leg to walk. life IS good, and bones are beautiful and mysterious, hidden and essential.