El Mar

EL MAR is a whirlwind scroll of a Cuban geography book and the April 2006 Cuban newspaper Granma. Early in the month Granma reports on the Cuban national baseball team’s return from the World Games and later in April Granma celebrates of the battle of Playa Giron an ill fated invasion attempt by the US known here in the States as the Bay of Pigs. Printed on the newspaper are wood cut images of fish found in the waters off Cuba. Contemporary images of ball players, street scenes and the Black Panther William Brandt along with historical postcards are silk screened over pages of Cuban geography.

Silkscreen images printed by Carlos del Gado at the Taller Porto Garra, Havana, Cuba.
Woodcuts printed by Art Larson at Horton Tank Graphics, Hadley, MA
2006 Edition of 6 10 inches x 27 inches