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Connection is not always physical -- in some cases, it's the attempt itself.

Pictured: In the Mottl Pension, Prague, Spencer Research Library.

Pictured: [left] 10th Street, Kansas City, 1929, Spencer Research Library, RH MS R24, Box 1, Folder 8; [right] 8th Street, Kansas City, MO, 1929, Spencer Research Library, RH MS R24, Box 1, Folder 8.

Pictured: Approach, Spencer Museum of Art.

Pictured: Letter from Stanley William Hayter to Mary Huntoon, Spencer Research Library.

Part of a set of illustrations based on the concept of the Ouroboros – a symbol of a dragon eating its own tail, reflecting the eternal cycle of life and death. One simply can not exist without the other.

As a kid, I always had my nose in books. The vivid scenes of the fantasy world would play out in my head as if a movie. This piece was made in part with my inner child, wanting to revisit those nostalgic story books.

A playful illustration of "buckle's" definitional contradictions