Cut out drawing I did for a printmaking project senior year at NMH, with thread on abaca paper, 11 x 8 1/2 inches

This is the  incarnation of  the first print that I made in high school. It was a mock up of what I was going to make on a lino plate.  Julie Carr and some other friends of mine used to go into the fields and set the pods free. The milkweed seeds would float gently away and beyond, liberated from their pod enclosures.  We, too, felt a freedom that was revelatory.   I saved this for so long,  because  I liked the image, because of that first freedom that I felt and most importantly  because here, my art  had begun to reflect  my reality.