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Baltimore Monsters
​2018
This continues the series which depicts the dark and curious places and beings of a world, hiding right before our eyes. 

8.5"x6.5"
Framed 14 7/8" x 11 7/8"

2017
This series depicts the dark and curious places and beings of a world, hiding right before our eyes. 

Enemy Approaching
Lost Time
Favorite Spot
Entertaining
Danger Underfoot
Council Mystic Facing South
Ola's Gift
Calibration At Two A.M.
Triplet Stars
Den
Dis-Order
Vampire Flower
Impersonating Grotesques
Spice Shelf
Barter
Followed By Fiends
Blissfully Unaware
Caught In The Act 1
Stroll In The Fungi Field
Specimen Collection 1
Low's Tomb
Commissioned - Discovering M.E. Photography (logo design)


Ink & Watercolor
2016
This series depicts the dark and curious places and beings of a possible hidden or alternate world. 

Recently Deceased Android EA73409
Summoned Cave Demon
A Cerbo Has Awoken
Shaman Podostroma XI
Crash Landing
Alchemy of the Mushroom Princess
Mountain Fairy
Fire Sign 2
Enlightened
Uninviting
Outpost 2
Outpost 1
Corpse of the Mushroom King
Aquatic Study 1
Ghost of the Muchroom King
Fire Sign
Intrusion
Darkness Emerges




​2008-2010

Aquatic Survey
Desert Explored
Odd Boundaries
Out On A Limb
The Curiosity Of Fungi
To The Sky
Just A Glimpse
Out Of Sight
First Blossom
"Organism 1" & "Lunar Lander1"
Just A Taste
Spacecraft 1
Ceremony 1
Sad In The Sun
What A Surprise
Robot And Fungi
Overlook
Aquatic Craft 1









​2011
Fragments from Utilis Planta  


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Use the link below for a full description of each illustrations from this series.
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​This body of work suggests a remarkable, highly imaginable representation of the fauna which may very well live among us. All of the plants in this series exist in the world Scott Goergens created in a series which will span at least three illustrated young-adult novels that follow Gordon Harold Grimsby, a 13 - year old boy who happens upon the remarkable world that hides from us all.

Over a thousand years ago a botanical compendium entitled Utilis Planta was written and illustrated by an unknown author.  The book was later discovered in the 1400s, by a little known man named Mellyle Asquith.  The book was in the private collection of a wealthy collector that we know even less about, who called himself Anton Vision, but there is no written record of his existence (only word of mouth).  While perusing Anton’s library, Mellyle found the volume and marveled at the beautiful and never before seen plants it contained, but more importantly, what they were said to be able to do.  Upon being asked about the book, Anton denied knowing anything about it and shortly thereafter, it had been removed from the library and never seen again.  Vision disappeared within days, just as mysteriously.  Mellyle who was so intrigued by what he saw, copied much of the work by hand, from memory.  Known as the U. P. Asquith Interpretation, Mellyle prized the book and allowed only a few close friends to view it.  Later, both Mellyle and his interpretation came up missing.  Fortunately again, over the years, word spread about this book by those friends of Mellyle, that had seen his interpretation.  

This series of prints shows some of the illustrations of the fantastic and fabled plants from that copied text and an accompanying description of each plant and its use.  These are only memories of memories, which had been lost, then passed down verbally, and now this is the first time they have been illustrated and described in hundreds of years, and only the third time they have been physically documented.  All of the plants described in this series have never been seen before and many question if they ever even existed.  For now, they shall remain categorized under Cryptobotany. 
Tab. 1 - Parthenocissus Voro
Tab. 3 - Gynura Scindo
Tab. 5 - Cattelya Luna Lux Lucis
Tab. 7 - Stachys Petra
Tab. 9 - Platycodon Navi
Tab.11 - Staphylinos Folliculus
Tab.13 - Dionaea Avis Comedntis
Tab.15 - Ornithogalum Ovum
Tab.17 - Etlingera Contrarium
Tab.19 - Digitalis Scelus
Tab.21 - Fouquieria Offoco
Tab.30 - Calocera Anemonem





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2010
Highlights from Woodblock series 

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​This series was designed to compliment the Territory, Reclaimed series, but more closely reflect the subject matter in my more current work. A world, where robots, machines and creatures discover and explore. These were a limited run, of only around 50 total. These are the size of a pack of cigarettes to dispense in Art-o-Mats, but sold before they ever made it to the Art-o-mat. 









2008-2010
In connection with the "Territory, Reclaimed" painting series

A Closer Look
Curious
Transplant
Memory Of Cities
Standoff
Surprise Attack
The Tides Have Turned
Toxic
Watch And Wait
Lonely
Oasis
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