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My recent prints and drawings play with implied clarity and visual noise, using the graphic forms found on comic book covers as a primary source material. Figures in conflict: fighting, struggling or overwhelmed, have been removed from their context, to become an abstract silhouette. The spaces they once occupied, are equally potent as collateral damage, hinting at the drama they once contained. Through removal, resampling and redrawing, the figures and spaces transform into a mix of the recognizable and the indecipherable. Multiple images have been created from the same source material; one image can influence the legibility of others, revealing connections. These images embody the idea of continual conflict and what is left in its wake becoming an expression of our inability to empathize and our growing need to dehumanize others with which we disagree. On printmaking and my creative practice: Comic Books were the first printed material I fell in love with as a kid. I later learned that they were relief printed up through the 1980's, which were my prime reading years. For this reason, it may not be so surprising that my medium of choice turned out to be prints. Using a graphic medium like printmaking makes complete sense for the translation of my black and white high contrast images and economic use of color. It's both how I think of images and how I translate the drawn marks I make.