Cultural Identity Avatar Portraits
These six color white line woodcuts are 10″x 10″ on BFK and are meant to be viewed as group: “Arabic Avatar”, “Chinese Avatar”, “English Avatar”, “Russian Avatar”, “Somali Avatar”, “Mexican Avatar”.
The text in these prints is from Chapter 8 of Italo Calvino’s book, “Invisible Cities”. The chapter is called “Continuous Cities 2” and describes the city of Trude which “does not begin and does not end. Only the name of the airport changes”.
These prints were exhibited in The Nicholson B. White Gallery at St. Paul’s Church; “The Salon Shows”, Work of four artists from Cleveland, March-June 2017