I absolutely cannot remember when I made my first etching...perhaps it will come to me later.  Perhaps it was when I hitchhiked down to Mexico with my dog, to spend a little time at the Instituto Allende, in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.  I don't think I still have a print of the etching I made of that adventure, but will try to photograph and add later an over-sized, heavily embossed (sans ink) print made then, of a water well's deeply weathered wooden pulley, covered with vibrant jicama vines.

Returning to California financially strapped, the four 'I Must Be You' prints were artist-proofs printed on cheap paper and never into an edition of quality. They've since been lost to termites, the plates equally vanished.

I'd only recently recalled the 'Water or Wave' quote, not having seen or thought of the print for fifty years, when a forwarded email arrived with a darkened photograph of the etching. There was no explanation from either the original sender or the go-between sending it to me but I am grateful as it holds a poignant place in my heart.

The other five prints were made with equal emotional significance, etched, and printed in a back porch studio while building our boat, PILAR, and juggling free-lance graphic work (No, 'Districtus',  is NOT a self-portrait):