Perigee Enso

That's as in perigee moon and enso circle

(zinc and copperplate etching with chine collé; approx. 12x20")

chimera

chimera \ky-MIR-uh\, noun:
1. (Capitalized) A fire-breathing she-monster represented as having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
2. Any imaginary monster made up of grotesquely incongruous parts.
3. An illusion or mental fabrication; a grotesque product of the imagination.
4. An individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.
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The background is a digitally printed photo-illustration (that means I photoshopped it enough that I feel I have to own up) of grafitti along the River Tibor in Rome. The "chimera" is chine-collé and stone lithography printed on top.

Goya-riffic

Okay, printmakers, go see Milos Forman's new film
"Goya's Ghosts" No, it's not the best movie ever made, yes it has a made-up story line with some unlikely nobility assigned to Francisco Goya, and yes it does ridiculously have Natalie Portman playing an Inquisition-tortured female lead, BUT, it does feature the always-excellent Javier Bardem in a richly evil role AND it's interesting and pretty and best of all, there is a scene of step-by-step copperplate printmaking! OOOLALA, if only there were more of that!! And evil clerics passing around prints with messy messy plate marks!! I mean, what more could you ask? (There are some parallels drawn between that historical moment and the present -- let's just say, if you're real gung-ho on the war in Iraq, you might be offended by some of his inferences...)