‘Bluebird and Mourning Dove’ was the first lithograph I ever made. Like much of my other work, it touches upon nostalgia and sentimentality. The bluebird, my mom’s favorite bird and a staple sighting around my home in Pennsylvania, represents nostalgia for what I’ve left behind. Baltimore has become my new, transitional home, and the resident mourning doves have replaced the bluebirds of Lewisberry. Situating the two birds together on a single plane is a way for me to acknowledge inherent similarities between the new and the old.

This is a hand printed lithographic print, a grease-pencil drawing printed from a traditional lithographic stone (a process that is slowly becoming archaic as these stones, harvested from a single quarry, disappear). This piece was printed in a limited edition of 12! Each print is numbered and signed by the artist.

8″ x 10″

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