This series of drawings were done to accompany a public talk given by Charles Morse. This scholarly and creative talk is titled Soil & Soul. "We proceed from the perspective that ecological health and psychological health are inextricably linked; that to tend to the soil is to tend to the soul and visa versa." (c. morse)

see link: https://www.thegreenfire.net/soil-soul-2

November 2020…from this first drawing, immram, came a series of drawings. Island Bodies could be considered images of emptiness, absence, and despair; a visual reflection of the kind of personal and social isolation that we encountered as human beings living through this moment in history. We have each lived our own experience of island-ness surrounded by transformative and at times destructive seas. However, it is important to remember that the separateness of an island is really an illusion as islands are ultimately, at their depths, rhizomatic and connected to the earth as we are all connected to one another.

(to read expanded text in essay Island Bodies see link https://www.debragoldmanstudio.com/writings)