Paul Weissman

Lithograph, 20" x 18", 2011

Whenever I look at a map of the world, I am amazed how far Hawaii is from anywhere else. The grouping is, in fact, the furthest pieces of land from anywhere else. And I find myself wondering how anyone found them and about the common bond among individuals willing to search out and populate these remotest of outcroppings. Like shoals in the middle of nowhere, the islands collect the drifters of the world.

Lithograph, 21.5" x 14.5", 2004

Knowing the suffering that is part of Life, would you choose to be reborn?

Lithograph/woodcut, 21.5" x 14.5", 2005

Made to commemorate a parents' 60th wedding anniversary, two techniques are layered to be able to incorporate all the participants.

Lithograph/woodcut/collage, 8" x 10", 2011

A self-portrait

Etching, 15" x 11", 2003

Nature and nurture.

Identical bodies.

Identical shoes.

Inked woodcut, lockets, photos, resin; 16-3/4" x 22-1/8" x 1-1/2"; 2015

Man's inhumanity to man - the Spanish Inquisition, Holocaust, Nanking, human trafficking, Darfur, 1938 Ukraine, Armenian genocide, 1942 Poland, Pol Pot's Cambodia - set against the precious remembrances of childhood photos - (clockwise from top) of Adolph Hitler, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong-il, Saddam Hussein, Joseph Stalin.

Where do these individuals come from? Are they born or bred?

Lithograph, 22.5" x 15", 2016

The decision to stay or to leave home has always been one of push/pull, known realities versus unknown possibilities.

This print is a narrative of astronomical and atmospheric forces, their impacts upon the planet's surface, and migrations of the creatures between, particularly humans.