Life in Captivity

Framed etching and aquatint — medium copper plate, acid-bitten, rosin-dusted, printed on Hahnemühle paper.

Height 13.5" x Width 10.5"

Do you find yourself longing for something you can't quite name? Waking in the middle of the night with the feeling that something is absent? If so, you are in the right place. What feels incomplete is that bare patch of wall above your balloon-backed chair — an empty space waiting to be filled with an image that acknowledges your search for meaning and understands that sometimes you feel lonesome, that sometimes you fall into routines. Perhaps what you lack is a reminder that you are part of the universe: a magical world, just like the one octopuses live in — and if you let yourself realize it, your heart might fill with such passion that it feels as though you had three of them.