Chicken/Egg

Growing up in a large family leaves indelible psychic traces which emerge spontaneously from time to time. In my case, it often makes for claustrophobic imagery that took me a long time to figure out. The blockprint was made in 1994 when I still had a little Vandercook in my studio, and making prints was as easy as drawing. A couple of summers ago, I was going through family pictures and found a group shot from 1985. For some reason my mother is not present, but it does show my father with all ten of us plus three spouses and two babies. I had no (conscious) memory of the snapshot when I did the print.

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