The Eagle on the Mexican flag comes from an old Aztec legend. The Aztecs were told by their god Huitzilopochtli to exodus and find a new homeland. They would know they had arrived when they came to an eagle on a flowering cactus, eating a snake. They found this in a lake and created Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City. The words at the bottom come from the song "This Must Be The Place" by Talking Heads, certainly a masterpiece. I made the image in the style of a European woodcut, specifically a medieval print of a pelican piercing it's breast. This is a three-color screen printed poster. The original key image was carved from the interior of a traffic cone (the same way a medieval woodcut would have been cut from wood) and printed on an antique printing press that my mother found at a garage sale.
TITLE: This Must Be The Place
SIZE: 18 x 24 Inches
MEDIA: Screen Print
EDITION: 75 signed and numbered
PRICE: $50
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