Basalt Pillows On Cavair
from John McPhee's
Assembling California, 2000
Stain & mixed media on paper, 20 x 32".
Basalt Pillows On Cavair
from John McPhee's
Assembling California, 2000,
Stain & mixed media on paper, 20 x 32", detail.
Odyneri
from Henri Fabre's The Mason Wasp, 1999
Mixed media on paper, 10 x 22".
Odyneri
from Henri Fabre's The Mason Wasp, 1999
Mixed media on paper, 10 x 22", detail.
Eumenes
from Henri Fabre's The Mason Wasp, 1999
Ink on paper, 12 x 18".
Eumenes
from Henri Fabre's The Mason Wasp, 1999
Ink on paper, 12 x 18", detail.
attempts to understand descriptive texts by drawing the objects, formations or situations described in the texts. Basalt Pillows on Cavair is a drawing of a geological description in John McPhee’s Assembling California. The Eumenes and Odyneri drawings began the series. They were made during the research for the mason wasp sculptures in which I read Henri Fabre’s The Mason Wasps, which curiously doesn’t contain Fabre’s usual illustrations.