Chicago artist, David Klamen is a student of hermeneutics-the science and methodology of interpretation. For him, the laying on of the paint is an essential part of his continual travels in self- understanding. When he is finished with a particular work, he feels "I know something more about myself in the residue I leave in the pigment."
When Klamen visited Tandem Press in 1999, he created 98 separate etchings of landscapes. The individual plates in the series are of varying sizes, but small enough in the aggregate to be printed on a single sheet. The resulting print bears the title "Untitled" as do most of his works. The landscapes are tonal variations of trees, water, and horizons. They form a mosaic that takes on an abstract nature until the etchings are viewed individually. They then become what he calls windows of ambiguous Midwestern landscapes.