Paul Revere Print 1940

This is Archie Thompson's print of the Paul Revere engraving, made sometime between 1855 and 1995. It's got this kind of ghostly, washed-out color thing going on, with these sharp, graphic outlines. I wonder what Archie was thinking, re-printing a famous image like this? You know, thinking about the marks, they're so direct, so deliberate. It makes me think about the way images get passed down and changed. It’s a way of seeing that asks you to consider the layers of meaning. Like, how does it feel to take something historical and make it new again? There’s a kind of conversation happening between Archie and Paul, across time and medium. It’s like they’re riffing off each other's ideas, building on a shared understanding of mark-making and storytelling. That feels really hopeful to me.