top Theogony

Based on the "Theogony", or birth of the gods, by the classical Greek poet Hesiod; order and structure emerges from primal chaos.
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top The Visitor

A mysterious visitor hovers quietly over a sleeping village.

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top Nightfall

As night falls in the forest, the creatures of day make room for their evening counterparts.
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top Mahler

A tribute to 20th century composer Gustav Mahler.
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top The Human Geography

An intricate palimpsest, like a map, a diagram of human experience, built layer upon layer with the passage of time.
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top Toward the Surface

A dazzle of light filters down from the surface into an complex and half-glimpsed world.
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top Concert of Hyacinths

The title is based on a prose poem by Greek poet Odysseus Elytis.
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top Morwong

The morwong is a fish that inhabits the tropical and temperate seas of Australia. There's a long and elaborate story as to why I chose that name for this picture, but I'll leave it up to your imagination.
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top With the thread of words, this gold

The power of language to both liberate and limit the individual.
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top Memory and Thought

Based on the Nordic myth of Odin, father of the gods, whose twin ravens Munin and Hugin ("Memory" and "Thought") roam the earth throughout the day gathering news to bring back and whisper into their master's ear.
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