This piece is on view January 21- February 20 in New York City at Rapture Cafe at 200 Ave A between 12th and 13th St. The adopter will be chosen on February 19th and will need to pick the framed piece up at Rapture Cafe February 20th. Throughout my work I have explored drawing, painting, sculpture and digital imaging in a process that results in photographic images. In my most recent body of work I am exploring playfulness and challenging expected ways of making art. I colored in children’s coloring books with crayons, scanned the images on a flatbed scanner, and had digital c-prints made from the resultant files. When these images are enlarged, the crayon markings are easily seen and followed beneath the photographic surface. I have worked primarily with coloring books about nature, such as field guides, flowers, animals, sea monsters and Aesop’s fables. The “Fables” series was completed during an artist’s residency in India. The illustrations for the coloring book were originally woodcuts that illustrated one of the first printed versions of Aesop’s Fables. The final prints are 30” x 40” digital c-prints.