THE IDEA EMERGES 8/88 - 5/89:

When I was a boy in the mid-sixties, my brother and I were mesmerized by mummy movies. The treasures and mystery surrounding the walking dead fascinated us. Archeology became a second love as I examined other cultures past and present, while incorporating these images. My father was influential, he spoke of the Rosetta Stone and the Dead Sea Scrolls. I read books written by Jung, Neamann, and Campbell which keyed into archetypes of the unconscious mind.
It was in the spring of 1988 that the inspiration which came to me in 1987 began taking form . By the end of the spring semester, I had completed a small prototype entitled “The Black Angel”, an11in.x8ft. piece. The piece was printed on Unryu rice paper with lithographic technique in an edition of three scrolls. Also, an edition of five prints of each image was printed on Stonehenge paper 22in.x30in..
In the fall of 1988, during my senior year at KCAI, my challenge was to do a larger scroll and to double the edition. The scrolls were 11in.x60ft. in editions of six . Each image was also printed on Stonehenge paper using a variety of printing techniques. The scrolls were: “The Four Holy Fat Sisters”, “The Drone”, and, “Just a Flesh Wound”.
Recently, I have begun research and drawings for my fourth and final scroll of the series, “Lost on the Path”.
Upon finishing each scroll, an edition was wrapped in linen, placed into a PVC container, sealed, and buried. At the site at which it is buried, a stone marker was placed with a fish carved into its surface.
The first scroll was buried in the Kansas City area, the second was buried in the northern part of Missouri, the third in the southern part of the state, and the fourth will be buried in the St. Louis area. When all four scrolls are buried, it will resemble an immense geographic square. I intend to locate the center of the square, and create a map room with directions to locate the buried
DREAD STEVE SCROLLS.