Haeckel Sea Canvas Print

Ernst Haeckel, nineteenth-century German biologist and artist, drew pictures showing the intricate skeletal structures of undersea and microscopic life, both fossil and living today. This photocollage combines some of the images from Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature with a colorful flame fractal.

As an artist I am a magician, transformer, and guide to other worlds. I see landscapes in rocks and tree bark, sunsets and galaxies in the peeling paint of old cars. Using Adobe Photoshop and other software, I combine photographs, fractals, and other images from a variety of sources to reveal secret places within and beyond our everyday surroundings. Recent themes in my work include the spiritual/magical dimension of life and the changes wrought by time. I was a writer (educational/nonfiction writer and poet) for most of my life, but beginning at age 50 (I am now 75) I revived a childhood dream of being an artist. My art has won prizes at local shows and has been exhibited (sometimes as one-woman shows) at Bay Area galleries and other...