During my undergraduate and early professional career, I was drawn to themes, which inspired a series of related images. One of the first series was Early Years focused on work produced in etching, photoetching, and intaglio.
Photo processes in printmaking were new in the studio and based on chemicals that were caustic and oil-based inks. The same was true for screen printing, which also relied upon oil-based paint and less caustic solvents. The introduction of acrylic-based printing inks to printmaking studios was in its infancy, and non-toxic film and screen fillers were helping to advance the use of photo processes. I loved working with these processes because I was developing my narrative style with a strong dependency on the use of photography.
I experimented with mixing carborundum powder for drawing and use as pigment in printing. My themes ranged from dream-like imagery to the Biafran war in West Africa, starvation in East Africa, and the Apartheid Movement in South Africa, to the urban landscape.
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