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Artist Statement
This linocut depicts a female Giant Pacific Octopus tending her eggs inside a long-abandoned human rib cage, contrasting the surprising maternal instinct of these incredibly intelligent creatures with humanity’s destructive (and self-destructive) treatment of their natural habitat. The print is a reflection on society’s influence and effect on our local marine species and habitats over time. The block was hand drawn and carved, and the prints hand-pulled using a glass baren on Japanese paper.
Materials and Techniques
Linocut print (left—final print; right—partially carved block).