Clytemnestra from The Puppet Oresteia

This was the final drawing I did for "Scenes from The Puppet Oresteia", the chapbook collaboration with New Zealand poet, Jack Ross. It was done as a replacement for an earlier piece that didn't work as well, I think.

Clytemnestra, 2011, brush & ink on paper, 10" x 8".

Scenes from The Puppet Oresteia

In recent weeks, I've been working on a collaboration with New Zealand poet Jack Ross. The result is a chapbook entitled "Scenes from The Puppet Oresteia", based on the classic Greek trilogy of tragic plays by Aeschylus, updated into a more contemporary setting, that of a play performed by children in their puppet theater, whilst still paying homage to the original. The chapbook is 44 pages, with 24 ink drawings (21 of them brand new for this project) by myself. The book will be available soon, as a co-production between Perdrix Press (Ross) and Narcissus Press (the small press my wife Diana & I founded). More details to follow, but here is the cover image, and a detail from the back cover below that: