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Graphite pencil, colored pencil, and ink on paper, 9"x12"

I have always thought of darkness as a very seductive force, so it literally grows tongues and lips to kiss you. In this series of drawings, tongues are used as a sensory tool to experience the world. Like snakes flickering their tongues to taste the air, these figures germinate tongues from their bodies to know themselves and the environment around them.

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Photographs, 8"x10"

These photographs are literal translations of the drawings.