Arizona artist Daniel Mayer will share insights into his interdisciplinary studio work with exploratory and creative processes in artist’s books, experimental printmaking, collaborations, and gateway public art. Mayer’s ongoing series FieldStudies responds to purpose and place, collecting, archiving, and inquiry. Altered topo maps with atmospheric rivers are captured in reductive charcoal drawings, shaped letterpress text represents mud cracks, and surface-oriented relief printmaking mirrors landforms. In Mayer’s gateway public art, the natural world is integrated for a sense of calm and reflection. Real, imagined and invented perceptions are variable constructs in Mayer’s studio explorations.