This screenprint by Erik Ruin was part of our 2024 Community Supported Art (CSA) subscription. The prints for our CSA are limited edition, and these prints were extras from unsold subscriptions.
Erik's contribution to the CSA is a reworking of a page for a forthcoming artist's book inspired by the German/Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg's letters from Wronke prison. These letters are full of cogent political analysis but also loving descriptions of the birds, mice and bees that visit her cell, and musings on literature, music and love that add an extra dimension to our idea of the revolutionary. This particular page features a papercut portrait of a European robin alongside an excerpt from her June 23, 1917 letter to Hans Diefenbach, a medical doctor, who was killed at the front a few months later in October 1917.
