This print deals with connections shared across familial history. The
boy is my deceased grandfather, Theodore Joseph Pukas, Sr.; the line
of his collar is continued by the brim of his hat as a young man, portrayed
upside-down. In front of the boy, the crease in the rug is extended
through the ledge of my great-grandparents' gravestone base. Perched
upon the grave is my deceased great-aunt, Laura Pukas Melcavage, as
a baby, and the entire top portion of the gravestone itself is my niece’s
chin, upside-down. Other collaged portions of my niece’s face
complete my grandfather’s shoulder (top-left) and appear as a
Baroque swag (bottom-left corner). In the upper-right corner, my great-grandmother’s
skirt and feet hang upside-down like a strange landscape viewed through
a pseudo-window.
Moku hanga reductive woodcut on cream Torinoko extra light paper, seven
color impressions — yellow (with mica), peach, pink, light brown,
blue, dark brown, and black.