Possum and Grasshopper Metal Print

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When I decided it was time to rededicate myself to my art I focused on drawing, because that is the basic skill for the craft I love, and I drew with ink pens because that was my focus before I ever had children. I had a black hardcover 8 1/2" x 11" book that I filled with drawings. That book is now the property of my #2 son, but I scanned a series of works out of it, and Possum & Grasshopper is one of them.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT: I feel that cycles – beginnings, growth and relationships in the world – are important to both discover and share. I am constantly wondering where things came from, what is within them and what they will become. As a child, I would hug a tree and try to see right inside of the trunk – eyes closed, visualizing the roots and sensing the flex and sway in the wind. My art reflects this abiding curiosity, which I can pursue and share with others by drawing out connections seen with the mind’s eye. My everyday world is filtered through eyes which are marked by a condition known as Anisometropia – where one eye is nearsighted and the other farsighted. This physical trait allows me to see images which are out of conscious...