Ghost Town I

Linocut, 2025

Hand-pulled relief prints
Black ink on fawn-colored paper
Signed, Dated, Stamped with artist's chop

Image size: 12" x 18"
Paper size: 18" x 24"

Edition Size: 50
Unframed

DESCRIPTION
A hillside town under a twilight moon, its stairs and arcades stacked into a single vertical climb. The buildings are worked in fine detail — every course of stone, every arch, every roofline. The inhabitants get none. No faces, no limbs, no clothing, just solid black shapes moving up the staircases and across the bridges. The town is not abandoned. It's just that nobody living is in it.

STUDIO NOTE
I drew half a dozen versions of this in my sketchbook before committing to the linoleum. It was one of my earliest large, detailed images, and it took three days to carve — nearly all of it on the architecture. The figures took almost no time at all. In relief printing, black is what you leave behind, so the inhabitants were part of the block I never touched. Figures created by inaction.