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    | Hand-printed etchings & artist's books charting the course of explorers encountering a new world that seems upside-down & pursuing that which is hidden, secret & just out of reach. | 
  
  
     
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    | Magical Thinking, artist's book with 6 hand-colored etchings/aquatints. | 
  
  
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    | Like Moths to Flame, artist's book with four etchings/aquatints with metallic washi chine collé. | 
  
  
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    | The Doubts Come Creeping In, etchings/aquatints with chine collé (a series). | 
  
  
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    | Testing the Waters, etching/aquatint with chine collé | 
    Fangs for the Future, etching/aquatint | 
    Releasing into the Wild, etching/aquatint with chine collé | 
    Metamorphosis, etching/aquatint with hand coloring | 
  
  
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    | Hair-Raising Times, artist's book with 6 etchings/aquatints with chine collé. | 
  
  
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    | Little Hauntings, etchings/aquatints with metallic washi chine collé. | 
    The Electrical Storm & The Innermost Forest, etching with hand coloring. | 
  
  
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    | The Falling Skies, artist's book with 5 etchings/aquatints with metallic washi chine collé. | 
  
  
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    | Holding Ourselves Together, 36 x 36 inch woodcut. | 
  
  
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