TERRY WINTERS (B. 1949)

In his Fourteen Etchings portfolio, in which this print was included, Winters referred to photographic illustrations from a late nineteenth century German book on anatomy. The illustrations included X rays of human skeletons. The portfolio also echoes poems penned by Edgar Allen Poe, whom Winters was very fond of, and is inspired by a list of major constellations that Winters encountered in the fourth edition of Roget’s International Thesaurus. Together with the other prints included in Fourteen Etchings, this print makes allusions to three realities: the microscopic, human, and astronomical.
-Richard H. Axsom, The Philosophers' Stone: The Prints of Terry Winters, in Terry Winters Prints 1982-1998, by Nancy Sojka and Nancy Watson Barr, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1999, p. 20-21