A print featuring illustrations of 32 wrestling poses caught my eye at a flea market. The original cross-hatch drawings are beautiful in their own right, with amazing details and exquisite compositional qualities. Looking closely at the figures, the images show the amount of pressure in their hands when they grasp each other or are touching the ground.
I reproduced the images on topographical maps of the Alaskan wilderness, which I chose based on the variety of textures and shapes that provide a “landscape” for the figures to inhabit.
