Recommended by Nikki (Fine Print Photographer / Marketing and Digital Content Specialist):

Takeda’s depiction of the death card is filled with eyes wide open, including on the intense central figure with their hands gracefully crossed, staring straight back at the viewer. In tarot, drawing the death card isn’t always a bad thing. Death is a normal part of life and can mean a new beginning as well as an end to something. As the year winds closer to its own death, this etching is a reminder to be alert and conscious about what in our own lives needs to come to a close and what could use more of our energy. 

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 1 1/2 x 2 inches (image)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Mexican, 1972
Date finished: 2008
Edition: of 25

Medium: Aquatint
Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (image) 11 x 15 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1949
Date finished: 2013
Edition: of 250

Mt. Baker from Skyline Divide, WA

Medium: Aquatint
Dimensions: 4 x 10 1/4 inches (image) 11 1/2 x 15 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1949
Date finished: 2012
Edition: of 250

West from Skyline Divide, Whatcom Co, WA

Medium: Intaglio and linocut
Dimensions: 4 x 6 inches (image)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: British / Chinese, 1973
Date finished: 2009
Edition: of 20

Recommended by Nikki (Fine Print Photographer & Content Publisher):
"Wuon Gean Ho’s Devour V is from  a series of intaglios she created in 2009. This series begins with a woman asleep, laying on top of a tiger. The cat awakes first and begins walking around until the woman also awakes and opens her feral-looking eyes. They separate from one another, and begin sizing each other up as they circle. They grapple, but do eventually come to terms with each other (tiger licks the woman’s face) before dissolving into each other and  the landscape. Devour V illustrates the moment when the woman is fully awake to her struggle with full realization of her circumstances and is actively fighting. Part of being human is coming to terms with our own wild cats that can wake up in us. Eventually, there will be peace and acceptance, but we first have to face them. Ho makes this struggle look sensual and chaotic with her use of subtle plate tone wiping and overlapping hatch marks in the plate. She effectively captures how it can feel to be rolling about with one’s own demons in the intimate space of our own heads."