Loaded
SMOKE
Japanese Woodblock Print
38.5" x 25" (63.5 x 98 cm)
Smoke design is based on an enlarged section of a design on the back of a one-dollar bill; car is from news photo of burned car in Iraq.
made with 2 shina, 1 birch plywood blocks
10 hand-rubbed color layers
Shikoku White paper
Edition: 5
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)