Etchings > Hermit Thrush 2009-2010

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Photo etching, chine colle
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Photo etching, chine colle
2010
Photo etching, chine colle
2010
Photo etching, chine colle
2010
Photo etching, chine colle
2010
Photo etching, chine colle
24"x36"
2010
Photo etching
2010
Photo etching, chine colle
2010
Photo etching
2010
Photo etching, chine colle
2010
Photo etching collage
2010
Photo etching collage
2010

This body of photo etchings acknowledges a rich historical framework of botanical illustration and documentation within printmaking. I manipulated scientific source material into decomposing images. I created the reference micrographs during my undergraduate thesis in 2000. I helped my supervisor, the late Dr. Judith Canne-Hilliker, with her studies of the floral ontogeny of the Scophulariaceae, by looking at the species Rhodochiton atrosaguineum. We grew vines of these unique flowering plants in a growth room, and I carried out studies on floral development, using a variety of microscopic techniques. This 2010 work includes an artist's book, And Hide the Hermit Thrush, inspired by text from Canadian poet Don McKay.