Land / Field Studies

No one suspects the days to be gods. 
~
Emerson
(quoted on the title page of The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard, and a gift from BT)


This work considers a simultaneous sense of the fixed and the fleeting with the paper itself being a unified field.
Color, shape and mark, (both printed and embossed), 
are used to indicate movement,
while shallow compressed pictorial space functions as 
a visual metaphor for immutability.
The prints were made in response to a resonant experience of living on a cattle farm
surrounded by mountains, and observing the 
cyclical life of the fields.
~ Kris iden

Land/field Study (green)

1997
Intaglio
16 x 15 inches

Hay / Field (green)

1998
Intaglio
12 x 12 inches

Hay / Field (blue)

1998
Intaglio, chine colle
12 x 12 inches

Luminist View

1999
Intaglio
text from Henry James
16 x 20 inches

Hay Study (phases)

1998
Color intaglio
30 x 15 inches

Hay/Field Four Squared

1997
Intaglio, woodcut
16 x 15 inches

Hay/Sky (2)

1998
Intaglio
14 x 20 inches