Originally I scanned an etching plate with an image of Andrea Mantinia's Christ resurrected. This marks the beginning of a "conversational" process through manipulation I have with my imagery. Next I converted the image to grayscale, posterized and converted it back to RGB. From the layers of each posterized separation I made several color studies and manipulations. Borrowing from several studies, I made my separations for photo screen printing.

During the printing stage I made new color choices and introduced hand drawn manipulations into the stencil. Conceptually, I wanted to play the digital manipulations off the hand drawn aspects of the image. At the core of the dialogue is the question of seduction and the loss of indentity/history, hence my use of appropriated art history images. "The Battle of the Naked Men" by Antonio Pollaiuolo is a significant print in the history of the print, and a personally powerful image from my education.

No computer generated image I know can duplicate the beauty and life of the hand engraved line. Pollaiuolo's technique for creating modeling was an innovation in his time and a technological advancement in the making of art. It is at the heart of my print, inverted into a negative image. The body of the print is Andrea Mantinia's Christ. Mantimia's prints were another powerful presence in the history of printmaking. His paintings and prints reflected the significance of solid sculptural figures. The computer changes all this with its capacity to grab any image, photographic or drawn, and instantaneously make infinite variations and manipulations. Until it is mechanically printed out by a machine, the virtual image exists more as a thought than a tangible reality. Then is it the same when it is made material? Death, rebirth and death are the cycles of nature and life. As with any advancement in technology there is something gained at the cost of something lost.