"The play has not taken place; it is the circular delerium that Kubin endlessly experiences and reexperiences."
-Jorge Luis Borges, "The Secret Miracle"
During six months of studio work in Rome, I lived next to the terminus of one of the city's major trams. The following drawings, woodcut prints, and embossed handmade papers are the result of many stationary studies of a city in constant motion.
Handmade silver-colored paper embossed with wood block, with black ink rolled on the textured surface. 8" x 10"
Two-block woodcut print on blue-violet paper.
8" x 10"
8" x 10"
Two-block red and burgundy woodcut on gold-colored paper
8" x 10"
8" x 10"
Two-block green and dark pirple wooodcut on gold-colored paper.
8" x 10"
8" x 10"
Two single-block woodcuts, one on gray paper and the other on blue. 8" x 14"
Single-block woodcut on gray-white paper.
7" x 13"
7" x 13"
Two single-block woodcuts with another block (with a different image)
placed in the center.
16" x 13