Description:
central image of fanciful landscape seen from above with jester headed snake at bottom, winding river through center, town at left, large jester's head at upper left blowing puff of wind, woman in boat holding violin and lamp illuminating a large eye with arrows shooting out of it in the center and black birds flying through image
Label Text:
A portfolio of 40 black and white woodcut prints with notations and a woodcut motion picture.
The Jackleg Testament Part I: Jack and Eve is a one-of-a-kind motion picture derived from the crisply styled woodcuts of Kentucky-born Jay Bolotin. The film reinterprets the story of Adam and Eve as a dark, provocative tale in which Eve is lured from the Garden of Eden by a Jack-in-the-Box. Presiding over the story is Nobodaddy, a mischievous, unforgiving creator, named after William Blake's term for God within the old testament. Bolotin's world is meticulously and vividly realized, an evocative hybrid of German expressionism, Brueghel and medieval religious imagery. An operatic score and soundtrack, composed by Bolotin, propels the film throughout, featuring the voices of the great English tenor Nigel Robson, Wagnerian bass Monte Jaffe, Karin Bergquist, lead singer of the bad Over-the-Rhine, and Bolotin himself. The script, also written by the artist, is rich in literary echoes, from Shakespeare to Kafka, and often darkly funny.
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