Linocuts prints on newspaper. This series juxtaposes the enduring voice of Shakespeare's 17th century sonnets with the transience of daily news. Printed on current newspapers, my linocuts illuminate tensions between permanence and impermanence, history and immediacy, situating Shakespeare's verse in dialogue with the present.
Shakespeare's Sonnet 144
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still.
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colored ill.
Which like two spirits do suggest me still.
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colored ill.
Shakespeare's Sonnet 50
How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel’s end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say
“Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend.”
When what I seek, my weary travel’s end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say
“Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend.”
Shakespeare's Sonnet 106
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
