Avett Brothers - swallowtails 2015 at Brewery Ommegang in

2015 at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown

I pieced together this idea that the helmet itself was an isolation tank that once sat at the bottom of the ocean

visceral and real

Lines begin to blur when destroying something pure

Avett Brothers - swallowtails 2015 at Brewery Ommegang inA few months back I picked up an Escher book at a Half Price Books in Austin that featured some of his lesser known more esoteric work. I was really struck by his tessellation's and how fresh they now look. This image was really inspired by some of the angles and the geometry and patterning in his art. I treated the whole thing like a puzzle with no box topper and worked one bird at a time not knowing what the finished art would look like. I was