THE PRINTS
Notes from the artist's husband . . .
This Bald Eagle convinced me that Benjamin Franklin got it wrong when he proposed the turkey as the American national symbol. The certainty in the eye of this eagle as to who he is, and who he is not, is clear. Saved from the brink of extinction by determined Americans who would not let this symbol of who we are as a people disappear, and who confronted the rapacious and immoral chemical companies in their fight to ban the pesticide DDT, we delight in the Eagle's return to the shores of Lake Monroe, a fifteen-minute drive from our house in southern Indiana
Created in pen and ink using the stippling and pointillism techniques. Look closely--the entire piece is made of thousands of individual dots each work usually takes a minimum of twenty hours to complete.