Venus series: Aphrodite from the Ashes

78 x 39 in.  / Collage / 2015

Collage with handmade papers, graphite, inks, marbleized paper, print, tissue 

$9800

Beauty startles. It takes the breath away. Might it be said that what we mean by inspiration—literally, a breathing in—is a palpable, bodily response to beauty? The Venus series is inspired by my love of sculptures from antiquity.  Often only a slender fragment of the sculpture remains.