Dark Clouds in the Land, is a series of three small, carefully developed and printed etchings and mezzotints invaded with ever-wide-open google eyes. The prints tap into gnawing anxiety of our political and civic moment. The choice of media is deliberate: Early Western modernity is charted, mapped, illustrated and described in precise languages of engravings and etchings. Wiggly-eyes and dark clouds of worry come from vernacular language of comic book, a language of contemporary anxiety graphically mediated.
Printed in edition of 14 each at the University of Akron’s Myers School of Art with Charles Beneke and his printmaking students. I am endlessly grateful for their hard work, jokes and hospitality.
Printed in edition of 14 each at the University of Akron’s Myers School of Art with Charles Beneke and his printmaking students. I am endlessly grateful for their hard work, jokes and hospitality.