"Outta the Herd"
16.5" h x 22" w
A 3-layer reduction wood cut. This animated Relief print illustrates a girl "individualizing" a kangaroo. It portrays overcoming the fear of being different from everyone else, to stand out of a crowd, & to be unique from a mass population.
"In Need of a Nudge" (in 2-D)
17" h x 22" w
A 3-layer reduction wood cut. This animated relief print illustrates a girl helping her walrus friend who is stuck b/t two hill formations. It portrays overcoming the fear of being stuck or stranded by having a helping hand or friend. It could even ambiguously portray conquering claustrophobia. All prints were produced before the sculptures.
"The Roundup" (in 2-D)
17" h x 23" w
A 3-layer reduction wood cut. This relief print illustrates a fearless girl lassoing a giant rattlesnake and cobra in a desert environment. She is overcoming her ophidiophobia.
"The Boost" (in 2-D)
19" h x 12" w
A 3-layer reduction birch wood cut. This relief print illustrates a girl climbing a nonchalant giraffe, whom "boosts" her into an air balloon.
"Spheksophobia Confront" (in 2-D)
23" h x 15" w
This is a 4-layer reduction birch wood cut. It portrays a girl straddling & slaying a giant killer wasp in the air. Two slain wasps fall below them. She is confronting her spheksophobia, which happens to be one of my biggest fears.
"A New Sound" (Members of the Freak Show's traveling band)
11" h x 17" w
This is a 1-run color layer woodblock. This print was for a Mexican Student Print Exchange. I illustrated a few of the 3-dimensional "Freak Show" members & formed them into a versatile band.
"Bevin & Toot" (in 2-D)
7" h x 9" w
This is a 1-run Linoleum block printed on a letter press. It is an illustration of a science experiment-gone-wrong escapee, who appears to have elephant, bat, armadillo, etc...features. "Bevin" encounters his only friend, an elephant stag beetle, named "Toot."
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