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Carbon Dating (Detail)

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Carbon Dating 2

Acrylic and conte on canvas (2015)

Size:  w 24″ x h 30″

A fossil of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx lithographia (the “Berlin specimen”) from the Solnhofen Limestone site in southern Germany was the inspiration for this painting, which took a turn or two of its own past that image.

Flight (from “Origins” series)

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Acrylic and photograph collage on granite (2012)

Size: (w) 23 1/2″ x (h) 11 3/4″ x (d) 3″

Flight was created in response to a call for art inspired by the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve in southeastern Ontario, Canada. For this piece as well as others in the “Origins” series, I obtained granite, sandstone, and limestone — sawn on one side — from a quarry near Seeley’s Bay;  I took the photographs of rock, water, and sky along the Thousand Islands Parkway between Brockville and Lansdowne.