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Here is a new photograph of Jacob Wrestling With God.

Inscribed Cypress Vessel

Unfinished cypress bowl on a cedar foot, inscribed with pyrography: a flying fished, sacred numbers, doors and windows. I like how the line work is similar to engraving.

Walking Man and the Miracle of the Flying Fish

The Legend of Walking Man, Part 1

The first documentation of Walking Man from 1998

Country and City Walking Men, 2005

Another early drawing of Walking Man from 1999

Walking Man looking out of a window 2001

The following is an early description of Walking Man as it appears in the play The Two Deaths of John Beartrist Laceroot:

Walking Man does quite a good bit of doing things, but often

is found plainly walking; in circles or in unjoined lines.

Also with regularity, in simple curves as well as complex

compounded curves accompanied with series of strait lines.

Less frequently, but often enough to be mentioned, he walks

in lines forming letters that sometimes are random and do

not spell out any sort of thing, but at other times they

make up words or sentences.

Walking Man is found often to have walked from one geographic-

al location to another geographical location extremely far removed from the

first, kicking the leaves underneath the trees.

For the ‑ uhmm… individual, the imagination is much more endued

with the powerful swaying grip of reality than that of the

actual objective reality. That is to say that, umm…ahh, to some people,

the life experienced within the imagination is just as real, if not more real,

than the life experienced outside the imagination…

if…the…ahh…two can be separated at all. In this consideration,

Walking Man is John Beartrist Laceroot.

Walking Man Recovering That Which Will Withstand the Fire

Walking Man Carries a Bowl with Horns

Zechariah

Zechariah, proof of a 3- color lino-cut.

I’ve been tinkering with this print for a few months now trying to get it right- not really sure that I am getting anywhere. While the 3rd block still needs a little adjusting- some of the lines are too narrow and gather ink to fast- it seemed ready to offer up here. Maybe you can give me some insight.

The print employs 3 different blocks, and there are in truth 4 colors if you include the white of the paper, which is part of the design. To cut down on time between printings in developing the proofs, I have been using water based inks. The final edition will use inks with oil as the vehicle. I have included a number of images from my process and some variations of the actual print along the way.