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I've lived a rather nomadic lifestyle and although I now consider the Desert Southwest my home, the wandering days are not over; drawing helps me explore the world. My media is pen and ink. To me, it's all about detail and process. Drawing helps me to understand the human condition, to impose my own sort of order on chaos. Although I am not personally religious, I'm interested in religious and cultural beliefs, customs, rituals, artifacts, icons, symbols, architecture, and the ways in which religion and culture affect each other. I'm drawn to the odd, the quirky, the esoteric; to the grace and flow of textiles and garments on the human form; to the emotional and psychic elements of the human condition, as well as to the physical. My formal training is in technical drawing which, when it isn't an overt element, is a heavy influence in my work.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Leaving Cartagena


Leaving Cartagena, originally uploaded by Doeki.
Ink
5" x 7"
Catherine L. Mommsen
2010
Hannibal left Cartagena, Spain in 213 BC with 37 war elephants.
First Place, Fairfax Art League Spotlight on the Arts, 2011