My Swan

My Swan holds special significance as the first edition I printed and personally signed and numbered, serving as a tribute and salute to my early work. Over the years, it has become the most coveted image in my entire collection, with one of my proudest moments coming in 2006, when the legendary pop artist Robert Rauschenberg added a limited-edition print of My Swan to his private collection.

As mentioned, this was my first edition printed and released, the one I proudly imagined hanging on a collector’s wall. At the time, I was playing the part of a full-blown novice and apparently felt the need to prove it during the editioning process. When it came time to number the prints offered, I confidently began the 24×36 edition at 1/250. Yes… two hundred fifty. In my enthusiasm, I skipped right past the twenty prints that I now sensibly limit that size to throughout my collection. You could say I was feeling… optimistic. Strangely enough, I’ve already surpassed the number of prints I would normally expect to release at this size, so perhaps my beginner’s overconfidence wasn’t entirely misguided after all. Maybe it's like I already wrote… this one is special.

Luckily, collectors seem to appreciate optimism.