OId Hungers by Roger Peet
Medium: 4-color 2-block letterpress linocut print Printed on 110lb cotton rag Cranes Lettra printmaking paper. August 2024
Size: image size: 11″ x 15″
Artist statement:”This is a four-color linocut print, made from two blocks on a hand-crank Vandercook 3 letterpress. The colors are a 3-layer reduction linocut, and the snake is its own block. I carved all of the layers by hand.
I made this print thinking about hunger, and how ancient it is to hunger. For food, for love, for a future, for justice, for a purpose: hunger is an engine that drives the world, and drives the evolution of new worlds within it.”
Artist website: https://justseeds.org/artist/rogerpeet/
Image description: A black, curvy, robust snake with detailed scales is centered with open mouth beginning to engulf an egg in the top left corner. Bright yellow, orange and pale yellow rays stretch out from behind the egg.