“Excessive sorrow laughs, excessive joy weeps.” It’s hard to think about the history of image/word texts and of printmaking without thinking of William Blake. This project references Blake’s America: A Prophecy (1793), and envisions a West Coast and Midwestern apocalypse in the age of Starbucks and Monday Night Football. Hand drawn, watercolor and ink, digital editing. Presented at the 2016 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference in a panel on resurrecting Blake in the archives.

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