I grew up in the 1970's in suburban Detroit. At 3:30pm on Saturdays, I would turn on the television and tune to Channel 50 in order to be entertained by the Creature Feature. I would wait in anticipation for the announcement of the afternoon's film, and would be beyond excited to see anything from the Godzilla genre begin to play. Long before I knew the symbolism of these creatures, I would be captivated by the sheer spectacle of it all. They truly captured my imagination.

As an adult, now living in California, I began to build an art practice around the carved line. Taking sheets of linoleum, or blocks of wood, I would carve a relief into the surface, ink it up, and run it through a press. The results were intriguing - there is something extraordinary about a carved line. My subject matter for these prints began to evolve, and finally my creative impulses pushed me back to my childhood memories, where these creatures still lived. So I grabbed a 3 foot by 3 foot sheet of linoleum, and began to draw. Monsters from my memories began to wreak havoc in San Francisco, where I now lived, with a nod to Frank Miller, who could fill a frame with black ink like nobody else.

The black and white images are the original iteration of the prints. The color images are created by assembling cut paper on the surface of the inked plate before printing, creating a one-of-a-kind result.