Chris Heard

A Not Quite Perfect Pear

Archival pigment ink on cotton rag, varnish
9" x 6" x 0"

2017

Afterlife

Archival pigment ink on cotton rag, varnish
9" x 6" x 0"

2017

Another Bad Dream

Archival pigment ink on cotton rag, varnish
9" x 6" x 0"

2017

The Arcane Machine

Archival pigment ink on cotton rag, varnish
9" x 6" x 0"

2017

Lying Liar

Archival pigment ink on cotton rag, varnish
9" x 6" x 0"

2017

Line Versus Texture

Archival pigment ink on cotton rag, varnish
6" x 9" x 0"

2017

Mixed Metaphors

Archival pigment ink on cotton rag, varnish
9" x 6" x 0"

2017

Gestalt Geomertry

Archival pigment ink on cotton rag, varnish
9" x 6" x 0"

2017

On Waking No. 1

Archival pigment ink on cotton rag, varnish
9" x 6" x 0"

2017

Equality or Equivalence

Archival pigment ink on cotton rag, varnish
9" x 6" x 0"

2017

Light itself has no apparent visual manifestation of its own, yet it elicits form and character from any surface it touches. Combine this paradox with the mysterious power of a simple photograph to send the mind into cascades of associative, metaphorical thinking and, sometimes, the results are small miracles that happen when outer and inner worlds intersect.