Bill Ritchie's Work in the

Stephen Rock Gallery

"Moibus" by Bill Ritchie

1997. Pencil, colored pencil on drypoint monoprint. 12 X 9 in. 

Artist statement: "I worked on a series of architectural plans for the tetrahedron that was to be the spacecraft of my fantasy woman-who-fell-to-earth. I was using engraving and drypoint on copper, and I was also drawing a twisted paper strip, a moibus curve. At the time I was going once a week to an open studio at George Woodall's. Stephen Rock was another regular artist there. At one of our sessions I was feeling very good about these open studios. I'd met Stephen the year before at the Daniel Smith Inc. open studios. I offered this print to Stephen, and he accepted it. Later I saw he'd framed it and it was hanging in a prominent part of his home."

Stephen Rock is an artist and designer. He can be contacted at www.rockeditions.com