artworks > THE ROOM an homage to Mark Strand

woodcut print, inmate of Juarez asylum, Mark Strand's poem, The Room
where the farmer sits and stares
woodcut with chine collé
24 x 21 inches
2016

co-published with Flatbed Press, August 30, 2016

where the farmer sits and stares
is a portrait of Teto, a resident of an
asylum on the outskirts of Juárez.

The carved text below the image is
the 1st line of Mark Strand's poem,
The Room.

Printed at Flatbed Press by master
printer, Tracy Mayrello with the
assistance of
Cordelia Blanchard

Artist's proof printed at Flatbed Press
by master printer, Tracy Mayrello.

Flatbed Press will publish this work
as part of a boxed suite of 12 prints
devoted to Mark Strand's poem,
The Room.