Stealth/Fly Zone
2006, 17.5 in x 44 in
Framed size: 24.5” x 51”
Edition of 5 and A.P.
Intaglio, aquatint etching, chine colle’, framed
In the stealth bomber series, forms which combine or hybridize biomorphic creatures and aircraft to show flight as a metaphor for speed in attack or escape. The asymmetrical predatory skua has morphed into an stealth bomber which can be seen either as approaching or moving sideways. Vibrating against a printed Chine Cole’ grid, the blue skua’s sugar-lifted interior shows planet details indicative of vulnerability, survival struggles and displayed strength, where beauty and terror embrace in settings when power and victimization toy with the surviving life forces. During her childhood, Rhea’s father brought home sheets of orange-lined graph paper from his instrument work at Standard Oil Company for her to draw on. This printed graph version from her drawing was created from a grid that was etched onto a copper plate, flipped left and right, with the Skua image then collaged over the top at Manneken Press LLC.
2006, 17.5 in x 44 in
Framed size: 24.5” x 51”
Edition of 5 and A.P.
Intaglio, aquatint etching, chine colle’, framed
In the stealth bomber series, forms which combine or hybridize biomorphic creatures and aircraft to show flight as a metaphor for speed in attack or escape. The asymmetrical predatory skua has morphed into an stealth bomber which can be seen either as approaching or moving sideways. Vibrating against a printed Chine Cole’ grid, the blue skua’s sugar-lifted interior shows planet details indicative of vulnerability, survival struggles and displayed strength, where beauty and terror embrace in settings when power and victimization toy with the surviving life forces. During her childhood, Rhea’s father brought home sheets of orange-lined graph paper from his instrument work at Standard Oil Company for her to draw on. This printed graph version from her drawing was created from a grid that was etched onto a copper plate, flipped left and right, with the Skua image then collaged over the top at Manneken Press LLC.