Text by William Shakespeare
The woodcut imagery appears as tick marks marking the hours or days. The vertical panels repeat yet are offset evoking an old sepia toned strip of film. Memento Mori’s theme reminds us of the inevitability of aging and mortality.
It is ten o’clock:
Quote from Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Thus may we see
how the world wags:
‘Tis but an hour ago,
since it was Nine;
and after an hour more,
’twill be Eleven:
And so,
from hour to hour,
we ripe and ripe,
And then,
from hour to hour,
we rot and rot,
And thereby
hangs a Tale.
- Printed with multiple block woodcuts on Stonehenge paper
- Indonesian palm leaf style construction with sewn thread binding. Black corrugated cardboard covers.
- 12.75 x 4.6 inches, closed, 37 inches extended, eight panels
- Signed, limited edition of 12
- 2005
- $400
- To order, please contact the artist.