This is the first print to roll off the tympan of my new Vandercook letterpress- an image of Osha, also known as Bear-root, Chuchupate or ha ‘il chii’ gah. A tonic herb related to celery and carrots, it’s a powerful medicine.
This is the first print to roll off the tympan of my new Vandercook letterpress- an image of Osha, also known as Bear-root, Chuchupate or ha ‘il chii’ gah. A tonic herb related to celery and carrots, it’s a powerful medicine.
Here’s a link to the site of photographer James Mollison, who has undertaken a great project of portraiture in Indonesia, Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo: Passport photographs of apes….
The abduction in 2014 of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college in Guerrero, Mexico continues unsolved, as evidence mounts of government complicity and even coordination of the disappearances….
Image from Copperflora.org. When I decided to reembark on this series of posts about extinct species, I did a check through my copious bookmarks to see if anything jumped out…
Political art is a powerful tool, but not every work penetrates the public imagination, and most fall far short. Sometimes, however, a single timely image captures precisely the attention of…