This series of 10 small works on paper, 19 x13” executed in watercolor and pencil represent the history and development of corn, or maize. For more than a decade I have explored the art, culture and imagery of
The silk of a corn plant are covered with fine, sticky hairs which serve to catch and anchor pollen grains. A well developed ear shoot should have 750-1000 ovules (potential kernels), each of which producing a silk.
