This work is inspired by the poem Traces by psychoanalyst Annie Rogers.

I love what happens when we read a poem. I love that I’m pulled in deeper and deeper and what emerges is a very dense, wordless space that is so completely and utterly human that we all know what it is even when it is not spelled out, letter by letter, image by image. That space is filled with invisible sensations and truths—about being human, about having a body, about deception, about the limitations of interpretation, about nature, life, and death—and it is nothing short of the most moving miracle that we understand each other in that space. That’s the space I mined in creating this etching.