The Artist at Home is made up of images of my life in my home/studio. The pages are organized so as to emphasize the disjointedness of the life of an artist. I grab minutes in my studio in between all the other things that I do. The coffee mug and the tea kettle, for example, are obvious symbols of housework and cooking. But in my studio, the mug also becomes a pencil and brush holder. A wild bird, a kite, representing artistic inspiration or emotional life, becomes abstracted into a stylized drawing on the studio table. In another print, I use that drawing as part of a wall hanging. As a child in India, I learned to fear kites. When we saw them circling overhead we were told that they would unpredictably swoop down and attack small moving animals, including small children. In my print I try to show how, as an artist, I take what I find, both within myself and outside of myself, and distill it and use it to create my art. I own a wood engraving by Lynd Ward, called Caged Uncaged. I have also used some of the uncaged birds from that print in one of my pages, partly as a realistic portrayal of my home, but mainly because, like my wild kite, these birds also symbolize for me a part of my life that is captured in my art.