Duegaw's latest project explores the power of drawing, the creative process, and the epic myth of The Twelve Labours of Hercules. Five random marks made on a blank plate serve as a jumping-off point resulting in this series of abstracted figures: animal-human hybrids revealing themselves in a provocative tale of ignorance, manipulation and control, intolerance, hubris, greed; but also of justice and acceptance. Part cloud-busting, part Rorschach test, the employment of the childhood game of Five Lines has yielded fourteen images, each a small edition of lithographs, together representing the ancient mythical trials of the son of Zeus as seen through a contemporary lens.
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A Hunter’s Lament (or) The Indignity of Can Openers
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (3 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inchesThe Silver Spoon (or) You Poor Baby
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (3 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inchesDoe With Antlers (or) Flouting the Binary, Part 1
2019 / Lithograph on Paper (3 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inchesAnatomically, a Stag (or) Flouting the Binary, Part 2
2019 / Lithograph on Paper (3 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inchesThe Swine King (or) An Abundance of Punica Granatum (Conceit)
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inchesSweeping Out the Stables (or) To Clean Up After Kings
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches“Bird-bodied, girl-faced things… (or) …with hunger insatiable” (Virgil, Aeneid)
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inchesThe Cretinous Bull (or) Serving Up Doctrine
2019 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inchesThe Night Mare (or) Truth Will Out
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (3 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inchesCasting off the Bridle (or) Autonomy of Truth
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inchesThe Dogs of Service (or) Watching Over Cattle
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inchesDeserting the Garden (or) The Graceful Three
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inchesLes Trois Lièvres (or) The Orchestration of Belief
2020 / Lithograph on Paper (2 color, edition of 25) / 16.25 x 21.5 inches