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Moku hanga woodblock print by Annie Bissett of pyramid and eye from back of a dollar bill plus figure of a sharecropper. moku hanga
PYRAMID
Japanese Woodblock Print
38.5" x 25" (63.5 x 98 cm)

Pyramid and eye are enlarged from the back of a U.S. dollar bill; Figure is from an 1880 etching of sharecroppers working in a field.


22" x 37" (56 x 94 cm) image size
made with 1 shina, 2 birch plywood blocks
10 hand-rubbed layers on Shikoku White
Edition: 7



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