Serigraph

To arrive in Segovia is to take a trip back 2,000 years. No photo could have prepared me for the grandeur and stateliness of the Roman aqueduct rising 28 meters above me. Every huge granite block is right where the craftsmen balanced it in the first century. (Mystical folklore tells of a tricky bargain with the Devil.) Not one gram of mortar holds arch above arch, windows to the blue Spanish sky. The immutable law of gravity is all it took. When I was a boy living in Spain, this aqueduct brought fresh water 15 kilometers to Segovia as it had done for two millennia. This artwork is about the aesthetics of power. The functional sculpture creates a rhythmic, hypnotic visual pattern with its sheer repetition of identical arches. Uniformity was a deliberate artistic choice meant to project the power of Rome across the lands it dominated. It is also a message to us in the 21st century from the most innovative of Roman artisans: You build for a lifetime; we built for eternity. Image 17x11 inches on Rives 100% cotton fine-art paper with deckled edges. 10 colors, each hand-printed by the artist. Limited edition of 14 prints. Signed and numbered by the artist. Each sheet bears my Authentic emboss and comes with an Artist’s Certificate of Authenticity. Also available framed. Device screen colors are inexact. This is a hand-crafted artwork. As such there will be minor variations that make each print unique. Subscribers to the series will receive this print.