Poppies will make you Sleepy ARTISTS_Ron Bechet Whether through wisps of color

Whether through wisps of color so subtle they seem to have dripped off a watery paintbrush or through hyper-saturated scenes where the color screams for attention

I am also investigating ideas and transition

The artist infused an Afro-diasporic worldview to the print series by adding symbols of Santería

It combines lush

—Excerpted from Dobkins

Poppies will make you Sleepy ARTISTS_Ron Bechet Whether through wisps of colorPoppies will make you Sleepy, 2026 Woodcut Edition of 30 29 3 4 x 21 3 4 in. Collaborative Printer: Alexis Nutini For her PrintLab residency, Ballard collaborated with master printer Alexis Nutini to develop a print that expresses the deliberate tension between beauty and violence that runs throughout her practice, what she calls the bitter and sweet. This work began in the archival holdings of the Library of Congress, HBCUs, and the Tulane Amistad