Ghost Town I

Linocut, 2025

Hand-pulled relief print
Black ink on white or fawn-colored paper
Signed, dated, stamped with artist's chop
Hand-printed by the artist

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

Edition Size:
- 40 prints on white paper
- 40 prints on tan/fawn paper
- 20 artist proofs

Unframed | Ships in a tube

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.