in process ~ why bother ~ preoccupied
~ WHY: because i want the hue-myn whirled to be less harmful than it is to wild things and wilderness. by the reminders---in the lifework of elders such as kathe kollwitz; for the rendered gravitas of grievous humyn damages endured and the fierce compassionate example of a road not taken, i mean to do what is possible, while i live and breathe, on behalf of all things that have no words that huemyns hear.
~ WHERE: in the hellbendre presse, among what is left of the wild sanctuary of this river valley homeplace, and alongside the masterful abilities, exemplary kindness, and generosity of more worldly practioners; for the sense and actuality of inclusive belonging they offer, allowing the renewed and newly learned calibrations and connections i long for in the other-wise peculiarly solitary practice of my devotion.
~ HOW: with the humble, tangible, and reliable tools, skills, and materials that provide in-hand assistance to the common senses, in my intention to evermore demythologize, reclaim, and give back our stolen and co'opted singing, drawing, and speaking voices, in the teeth of the over-wrought glamours, techno-illogical travesties, and consentual-reality infestations which unrelentingly and routinely continue to harm and hinder the harried habitats of wilderness, childhood, children, and womyn of every species, and of the wild peculairs such as i, in the beyond-humyn world. just because one can doesn't mean one should.
~ WHO: all the unwitting, witting and willing influences, companions, sheroes, and womyntors in and beyond here-and-now; for they befriend and sustain fierce devotion, sardonic whimsy, and resourceful practice, in answer to my calling.
~ WHEN: every minute, in the equological imagination's slow and steady, tenacious and abiding, all-encompassing apocolypse; in the ever-evolving change, inclusive diversity, and resilient practice of being. the one thing one can change is one's own mind. let be, and so be it; ah, womyn.
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![]() Crucifiction ~ James Keith McWhirter ~ stone lithograph | ![]() Judgement ~ James Keith McWhirter ~ stone lithograph |
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![]() Crooked Crosses ~ James Keith McWhirter ~ stone lithograph | ![]() The Zither ~ Will Barnet ~ aquatint |
![]() Vergewaltigt/Raped ~ Kathe Kollwitz ~ graphite | ![]() Bein Dengeln/Whetting the Scythe ~ Kathe Kollwitz ~ etching |
![]() drawing beneath kathe kollwitz ~ hellbendre presse | ![]() graining lithograph stones out back ~ hellbendre presse |
![]() drawing the mobiusse tapeworme's ambi-valente dualitye ~ lithograph stone ~ hellbendre presse | ![]() drawing outside lookinge inne ~ lithograph stone ~ The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
![]() good practice in stone lithography process ~ healthful self-care toward the becoming of an elder womyn printmaker ~ Frogperson's Workshop, Vermillion, South Dakota | ![]() the mobiusse tapeworme's ambi-valente dualitye ~ on the lithograph stone |
![]() the mobiusse tapeworme's ambi-valente duality ~ koreloy wildrekinde~mcwhirter ~ stone lithograph ~ leathrewingeditionnes | ![]() pandora's earthe hemourage ~ on the lithograph stone |
![]() pandora's earthe hemourage ~ koreloy wildrekinde~mcwhirter ~ stone lithograph ~ leathrewingeditionnes | ![]() outside lookinge inne ~ on the lithograph stone |
![]() outside lookinge inne ~ koreloy wildrekinde~mcwhirter ~ stone lithograph ~ leathrewingeditionnes | ![]() drawing angrye babies ~ copper plate line etching ~ residency ~ Anchor Graphics, Chicago, Illinois |
![]() angrye babies ~ line etching on the copper plate | ![]() angrye babies ~ plate wiping ~ hellbendre presse |
![]() angrye babies ~ detail wiping ~ hellbendre presse | ![]() angrye babies ~ hand wiping ~ hellbendre presse |
![]() angrye babies ~ lifting the print ~ hellbendre presse | ![]() angrye babies ~ koreloy wildrekinde~mcwhirter ~ copper plate line etching ~ leathrewingeditionnes |
![]() koreloy painting pentangle fresco | ![]() finishing pentangle fresco |
![]() drawing on the banjo ~ hellbendre presse | ![]() demonstrating drawing on the banjo ~ hellbendre presse |
![]() wearing iris hat ~ turning between formative models of narrow paths taken, narrowly escaped, and practice ~ toward further present, venerable, and practicing printmakers and other inspirations | ![]() Earth Triptych ~ Megan Lee Larkin McWhirter ~ etching and aquatint |
![]() La Geante/The Giantess ~ David Schorr ~ intaglio | ![]() Les Deux Bonnes Soeurs/The Two Good Sisters ~ David Schorr ~ intaglio |
![]() High Rise ~ Curtis Bartone ~ stone lithograph | ![]() Nocturne (Widow in Landscape) ~ Curtis Bartone ~ etching and aquatint |
![]() Alchanatomist's Model for a Giant ~ Chris Flynn ~ intaglio | ![]() Ex Libris Geerth V. D. Zee ~ Oldrich Kulhanek ~ stone lithograph |
![]() Reynard the Fox ~ Nikolai Batakov ~ etching | ![]() Ex Libris Luc Sanders/Flemish Match ~ Albin Brunovsky ~ etching |
![]() The Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart lV/Prouds and Their Falls ~ Albin Brunovsky ~ etching | ![]() Exit From Paradise ~ Yurij Nozdrin ~ hand coloured intaglio |
![]() Convergence of Opposites ~ Lucius and Lenda du Bose ~ hand coloured etching | ![]() Luna Sea ~ Patricia Hunsinger ~ colour lithograph |
![]() Spider Mother ~ Patricia Hunsinger ~ colour lithograph | ![]() Faubourg nam main bon Dieu/Neighborhood in the Hand of the Good God ~ Gwen Diehn ~ relief print with watercolour and photocopier transfer |
![]() Night Games/Wide ~ Gwen Diehn ~ sawn block relief print with watercolour | ![]() Crouching Figure ~ Joe Loccisano ~ graphite |
![]() Changeling ~ from Characters in Search of a Story ~ Joe Loccisano ~ monotype | ![]() Cyclops ~ the beautiful and the terrible ~ from Freaky Faces ~ Joe Loccisano ~ pastel |
![]() a brrrde inne the hairre is worthe two inne the bushe ~ koreloy wildrekinde~mcwhirter ~ graphite drawing | ![]() the slye madonna ~ koreloy wildrekinde~mcwhirter ~ t-shirt drawing |