"Elizabeth and Rod" |
"Elizabeth and Rod", woodblock print
24 cherry plywood blocks
dry pigment and neri-zumi in paste of rice starch on Iwano Ichibei
hosho
approximately 15" x 10"
24 sheets completed June 25, 2004
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| Rod, my friend of 20 years and his girlfriend of two weeks, Elizabeth,
came down in early June and allowed me to photograph them them...
A LOT of interesting images came from that afternoon, including this
one which I loved for its quiet contrast between her light and somewhat
inflated figure in motion and his dark and heavy and stationary stance
behind. This one parodies 19th century sumo images which occasionally
depicted sumo in the company of beautiful women.
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