Birds of Paradigm

Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the elephant. The repetition of the shapes, generally in sets of six, creates what at first appears to be abstract compositions." "Birds of Paradigm" is from an edition of only 35, referenced as Firos 60. Carol Wax's newly revised second edition of her book on the Mezzotint has just been released.  Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her first book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire o