Marian Propp, a Chicago-based artist, was born in New York. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Arts from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Among other positions such as co-founder of Anchor Graphics, Propp is also an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design at Columbia College Chicago. Along with eleven other artists, Propp exhibits his marine works as part of the Climate of Uncertainty group. at the DePaul Art Museum at DePaul University. Climate of Uncertainty is a group of twelve artists who present their works which highlight the issues of environmental pollution as well as the ecosystem. These artists travel around the world to photograph the declining health of Mother Earth. Some of these artists made sculptures, some recorded landscapes and projected them onto walls, some exhibited a small-scale laboratory, some photographed, but Propps printed on woodcut panels. One of Marilyn Propp's latest works, "Deep Sea Drifters II" (2012), is a twelve-panel woodcut. Its purpose is to depict some marine life, but primarily depicts debris found in the oceans. This debris ranges from metal to organic waste, including plastic and chemical waste. From a distance and as a whole, these twelve woodcut panels appear to be a joint work of art. Among the other artworks, Propp's "Deep Sea Drifters II" stood out to me because the others were mainly photographs of landscapes, people and objects. Propp's work was largely pinned to the wall with map pins at each corner of the panels. "Deep Sea Drifters II" stood out not because it wasn't a photograph but because the art style looked something like a new-year-old pencil work. Of course, when I looked closer, the piece... middle of paper...... it still preserved the details of each object so the audience could still tell what it was. In “Deep Sea Drifters II,” Propp doesn’t try to present things in an orderly fashion; rather, it compensates for the passive ambiance of the color blue with a chaotic sensation by grouping all the “debris”. Marilyn Propp creates different types of artwork. His most recent series of artworks are mainly woodblock prints. She is very minimal when it comes to the use of colors in all of her woodblock printed artwork. Additionally, all of his past woodcuts were very minimalist because there aren't many found objects in each artwork. “Deep Sea Drifters II” is Propp's most comprehensive woodcut, consisting of twelve wood panels, while his previous works were single panels. Besides wood printing, Propp also produced paintings and drawings from 1989 until 2007.