I have always had a fascination for dinosaurs. In kindergarten, there was this giant book on dinosaurs. There were all kinds of pictures and facts about these giant lizards. I formed a dinosaur club around the book. I had a lot of my classmates who would gather around the table and we would scour the book for images of our favorite creature. Years later when I was in graduate school I was looking for images that I could incorporate as my personal style. The topic of dinosaurs reappeared. One day I was browsing an art history book and came across a small image by Paul Klee. The image was of 2 naked men bowing to each other in submission. It was titled. “2 men meet each supposing the other to be of higher rank” I thought it was really funny. I took the concept modified it a bit and applied it to dinosaurs. 2 extinct species worried about who was more successful was really funny since they were both failures in the fossil record. The print posed questions like what is success, how do you measure it and a comparison to anyone else is pointless.
Some years later after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, I added several other prints of dinosaurs dealing with death and extinction that like Parkinson’s was unasked for and unwanted and unfair. The prints deal with death and extinction but also emotions and feelings dealing with Parkinson’s.
