Printed on archival, 100% cotton Hahnemühle Museum Etchings paper.

Limited edition run of 50. Each signed and numbered by the artist.

10x14" (paper dimensions only; print comes unframed and un-matted).

Original: watercolor and ink on Arches cold-press paper, 2018.

CONCEPT:

Inspired by the amulets placed in niches, inside homes and temples, throughout Thailand. I am drawn to this notion that each object you hold dear has its own small home, its little landing place, its niche.

The Eggs are a small microcosm, the yolk the most tender and sacred space, where consciousness and creativity live. The night sky outside represents the unknown, chaos, darkness, all that we cannot control, all that we perhaps fear. Within the protected yolk I scrawl reveries, stream-of-consciousness ideas, no planning, no fear or pressure-- just whatever comes to mind, kind of hieroglyphs of the subconscious. I often do this at night when I'm tired but I have some more brain-juice that needs to escape.

The ‘Night Egg Niches’ series combines this older concept (Night Eggs) with my newer fixation on niches and amulet chests (from travels in Southeast Asia, especially Thailand).