The Letter Killith but Spirit Givith Life (1998)    

Artist Note: Almost all artists in their time are aware that "artist" is notarized some 100-plus years after they have did their time. All living artist's will still have a few pieces they actually like. This piece is one I was happy with immediately, which has nada to do with good or bad, better or worse. It never should. It is certainly the most explosive and colorful piece I have done and it comes with the territory that all reproductions have been in black and white. This is also I good time to say (admit?) that many lines I use, readable or illegible, are rarely in context.
Calligraphically, the line rimes with my feelings. In the context of Paul's usage, it refers to something else.


Watercolor, gouache, Ziller ink, gel pens, colored pencils, Tech pen, Butterfly folded pen, pointed brush, Elmer's glue, maskoid on 12 x 18" handmade lithographic paper by Nathaniel Graham

Text: Paul, Corinthians 2.

Publications &: Exhibitions: "Letter Arts Review Annual," 200l (V.16, N.3); "Letter Arts Review Word + Craft" edition, 2005 (V.20, N.2); "Word + Craft International Calligraphy Exhibition," Folk Art Center, Asheville, NC, Jan. 14-April 2, 2006; Juror's Award, "Word for Word Exhibition," Troy, Ohio, 2004; "Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts," Lake Oswego, OR, 1993; "Kalligraphia," San Francisco Public Library, Friends of Calligraphy, 2002.

From the collection of Jim Chin, Lemont, IL.