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An Etching from Art School---1968
Vacuum Cleaner Devouring Itself
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When I was a child I was fascinated with the concept of a vacuum.
How could something be completely empty? My mom's vacuum cleaner hose kinked and curled around the furniture, and yet the
sucking action still worked. Why didn't the whole room's contents (including me) fly down the tube? If that happened, where
would I end up. Would there be air for me to breathe? I worried about this when I was 5 years old. I still have a fear of
housecleaning (or at least that's my excuse). This
was a zinc plate etching, and this is the only print. It hangs in the same room where I keep my vacuum hose.
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Anatomically Correct Cell Phone--Amebic
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The ameba is a free-living, unicellular
organism that multiplies by dividing itself into two new organisms. Since such a cell seems well versed in mathematics I figured
that it would be the ideal cell phone. This one comes with ear bud attached to a phagocytotic vacuole and also has an antenna
which looks like a rudimentary flagellum though, of course, an ameba is aflagellate. The endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi bodies
are present as well as a few other representative organelles. This is a copperplate etching done as an aquatint which is partially burnished back to
lightness (method akin to mezzotint but a whole heck of a lot easier though more fragile). The image is 3" x 5" and there
were only a couple of prints before the plate lost its velvety darkness. Oh well.
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Do you know who discovered the Golgi Body? Mrs. Golgi, of course. Do you know who discovered the Organ of Corti? Mrs.
Golgi again. She got around.
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