I often work in series that I revisit over the years. Some are rooted in my extensive travels in Southeast Asia where I encountered many remnants of Buddhist architectural relics. Drawing from photographs taken on these journeys, l developed a series of photogravures. In one image I captured the weathered remains of a seated Buddha statue - an eroded sculpture exposed to the elements for centuries seemingly dissolving into the wall behind it. Since most of my work is based on the medium of printmaking, I couldn’t help but see this site as a matrix from which I could develop additional images. The splendor of past magnificence now long gone serves as a metaphor for the passage of time and a telling reminder of the impermanence of things in general. Hence its title “Impermanence.”

Photogravure