RECENT WORKS ON PAPER   My newest watercolor paintings are quiet reflections on mortality, fragility and desire. The players in these desktop existential dramas are the other denizens of my studio work environs -- insects and birds mostly -- and they act out staged scenes of annihilation, often amid handwritten scraps of paper and the mundane artifacts of daily life. These images aim to reveal the hidden beauty and the potential for dark humor and pathos in a microcosmic world that is all too easily overlooked -- that is, when it is not being inadvertently crushed underfoot.  MORE