This is a mockup installation of black paper silhouettes. The composition is approximately 24’ long and 4’ high. Each creature is cut from a piece of black card stock, anywhere from 1 inch - 10 inches long, and then gummed to the wall. Click on the images above for the full composition.

I learned two things while creating this piece. One, my essential tremors still make my hands too shaky for me to draw well. But for some reason if given an X-acto blade I can rule the world. The craft of cutting paper is still within my reach.I am still capable, in fact, of completing a piece involving illustration and design. I wasn’t sure I could do that. But it was literally painful: it caused headaches, epileptic auras, and crippling exhaustion. Imagine forcing yourself into a burning building to save a cat. Success! You come out to applause with a singed cat, a feeling of virtue, and the thought, “I’m not sure that was worth it”.

But I did finish it. Maybe I could do that again for a really, really important cat?