on view at IPCNY’s New Prints 2017 Winter exhibition
Pests of Public Importance, 2017, edition 126
3 x 2.25 inch woodcut and letterpress boustrophedon accordion book
April Vollmer: woodcut
Esther K. Smith: concept, book structure, design
Dikko Faust: letterpress, typesetting
Publisher: Purgatory Pie Press
With an eponymous poem by Georgia Luna Smith Faust
available from Purgatory Pie Press
Dikko Printing on his Vandercook
Also available uncut as a flat print in an edition of 40
Mosquitos carry zika, yellow fever, dengue, malaria and more. The importance of these pests has increased with the combination of transcontinental travel and global warming. Mosquito species evolved for every ecological niche in our interconnected world. Their power is in their numbers and their power of replication, reflected in the woodcut print with its rhythm of insects framed with a repeating classical palmette frieze.