Gum Transfers

I completed this book in early 2010 for my Earth Remembers exhibit at the Main Street Gallery in Groton, NY.    It is an artist's book with 13 wolves and 13 spirit wolves assembled in a concertina style binding, with dark brown cloth and inlaid woodcut on the cover. 

etching, woodcut, monoprint, collagraph, gum transfer

gum transfer, graphite, monoprint with encaustic on kitakata

2 color gum transfer and graphite on Rives BFK

In terms of the historic record, the importance of thee complex of buildings that constitute the Auschwitz and its sister site Birkenau concentration camps, is indisputable.  As humanity marches onward more than fifty years into our present history, these sites serve as profoundly unique evidence of a moment in time – one that is the most difficult to understand.  

In terms of the historic record, the importance of thee complex of buildings that constitute the Auschwitz and its sister site Birkenau concentration camps, is indisputable.  As humanity marches onward more than fifty years into our present history, these sites serve as profoundly unique evidence of a moment in time – one that is the most difficult to understand.  

In terms of the historic record, the importance of thee complex of buildings that constitute the Auschwitz and its sister site Birkenau concentration camps, is indisputable.  As humanity marches onward more than fifty years into our present history, these sites serve as profoundly unique evidence of a moment in time – one that is the most difficult to understand.  

In terms of the historic record, the importance of this complex of buildings that constitute the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps, is indisputable.  As humanity marches onward more than sixty years into our present history, these sites serve as profoundly unique evidence of a moment in time – one that is the most difficult to understand.

This print shows my son Julian's feet on the day we visited Auschwitz and Birkenau.  The sun was setting, and the museum complex was about the close.  The earth came alive in the moment, casting long shadows, and setting all things in an orange light.  I sensed an urgency and quiet alertness to the importance of the moment, to capture it.  The feet of many martyrs had walked these same stones.  I needed to find the connection to them, and it seemed obvious that all I had to do was look down and see where our feet touched the ground.  The earth would tell all.

4 color gum transfer on Rives BFK