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From a series of drawings on Mary Hark flax paper, especially designed to look like the dura mater.

Velocity mapping is a relatively new technique to show what is going on inside the body. Radiologists spend years learning to de-code the images, just as artists spend years learning to draw, decoding interior structures, or to play an instrument, de-coding what a musician has written on the paper.
I am trying to make visible what technology has as yet not been able to record on a photographic plate: the creative process in action. This drawing is pure invention, with no base in reality.

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Birdseye View, charcoal, pastel, on paper, 30x22", 1989
Reflecting Pool #1, pastel on paper, 60"x45", 1989
Reflection and Shadow, pastel on paper, 65x45" 1989
Schwan #2, pastel on paper, 75x60", 1987
Rainy Day in May (Selfportrait) pastel on paper 40x26" 1991
In Limbo #2, pastel on paper, 44x30" 1991
Sfumato, pastel on paper, 40x26 " 1991
Yellow Blast, pastel on paper, 40x26", 1991
Grimm's Fairy tales #1 (Hansel and Gretel) pastel, chickenbone, on paper, 41x52", 1993
Grimm Fairy Tales (Rapunzel #2), ink on paper 22x30", 1994
Mistaken Identity, mixed media on canvas, 47x62", 1994
Old man on the Levee #3, ink, charcoal on paper, 30x22", 1993
Invisible Empire: Seing eye to eye, ink, charcoal on paper, 22x30", 1993
Invisible Empire: Double Standards, charcoal, ink, on paper, 22x30", 1993
The Slug's Progress; Installation at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1994/95
Rectangular Slug (detail of The Slug's Progress), ink on paper, 22x30", 1994
Treatment Plan, Installation, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1994/95
Treatment Plan: Pelvis, pastel on paper, 26x40", 1994
Large Heads (Check-in at the Pearly Gates), mixed media on paper, 44x30", 1994
Large Heads (Neck wound), ink, charcoal, on paper 44x30" 1994
Jennifer's Breakfast, mixed media on paper and aluminum, 44x180", 1995
detail of "Jennifer's Breakfast", mixed medium on aluminum, 10x14" x15"
Half Horse, ink on codalith, mounted on paper, 14x11/2, 1996
Quarter Horse, ink on vellum, 14x101/2", 1996
Family Photo #2, ink, pencil on X-Ray, mounted on paper 30x22", 1996
Digital Tail, mixed media on CT scan, mounted on paper 22x30", 1996
Heads on Sticks #3, mixed media on X-Ray, mounted on paper 30x22", 1996
Ancestors on Sticks (Yellow Teeth), mixed media on CT scans, 44x30" 1996
Ancestors on Sticks #2, Mixed media on CT scans mounted on paper 44x92", 1996
Dotty Systems #1 (Brahms/Eel), mixed media on canvas, 42x108", 1997
Dotty Systems #2 (Bach/Chicken)
detail of Dotty Systems #2
MRI-Head (Red Earth)
detail of MRI-Head (Red Earth)
Dextrocardiogram (Yellow Ochre), drawn/painted on canvas 50x60", 1999
detail of Dextrocardiogram (Yellow Ochre)
Tiny Lounger (Amity)
Widespread Emphysema (Davis Gray earth pigments) on canvas 50x60", 1999
Ultrasound (Bladder), Caput Mortuum red earth pigment
Code #1
"what is it?" Mixed media on linen paper, 10x191/2", 2002
Head in a Box
FALX on FLAX, mixed media on linen paper 10x10", 2002
Swollen Head, Swollen Box
Velocity Mapping, ink on linen paper 10x10", 2002
"It's the Line, Stupid", mixed media on linen paper 10x10", 2002