In a little over a month I will be exhibiting in First Impressions, Celebrating the Process of Printmaking at Summit Artspace. Curator Dan Coffield’s proposal involved the inclusion of process materials and proof prints to illustrate the artist’s journey from idea to finished art. The series I plan to exhibit is As Potent As a Charm, a reference to Rappaccini’s Garden by Nathaniel Hawthorne. While my ideas and sketches are numerous, the quickly approaching deadline requires that I narrow the focus to a workable number of pieces, so I am concentrating on five images inspired by the poisoning mnemonic: Hot as a Hare, Blind as a Bat, Dry as a Bone, Red as a Beet and Mad as a Hatter.

First up is that feverish hare. He probably shouldn’t have nibbled on the hemlock.