Collection of 25 drawings from a series of 130. The Spiral Worm Drawings were shown at the Dorsky Gallery, SoHo, NYC, in 2001. They are the first series of drawings I created that are entirely devoid of words. These works are made using frozen Blood worms, a commercially available tropical fish food. I allow the worms to defrost on manila paper, then manipulate them with a brush to form spirals and patterns, resembling waves or currents of water. The dark lines in the drawings are the worms themselves, which, once dry, adhere to the paper. The reddish hue comes from their blood. My decision to use Blood worms as a medium relates to Dr. Sydney Brenner’s pioneering work in molecular biology, where he used similar worms to help decode the human genome. The worms serve as a metaphor for humanity’s psychological and physical struggle to survive in an ever-changing and often hostile environment. Blood worms are one of the few species that have adapted to thrive in places nearly void of all oxygen. Beyond their association with water, these drawings also reference the cosmos and evolutionary travel.