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More Than Human...

...is a woodcut poem in American Sign Language(ASL).
As a soliloquy, the half-human/half-sheep describes his conception, birth, revelation and death.
The end-grain woodblocks from which the images were printed, came from one New Hampshire Maple tree. The first hand-pulled edition is a
loose portfolio of over eighty wood engravings printed by Aaron Drew in Brooklyn at Jacob-Jingle-Heimer-Schmidt Press(JJHS).

(Only the top row is linked to enlargements)

title colophon begin baby body on earth
what place half animal half2 human(in process) body human
world therelft animal2 world3 therert humananimal sheep in
look animal(in process) conflicted body3 why there mymother there2
sheep2 farm pasture looklook moon moonrise pasture2
doublelook2 for foxes doublelook3 medusa watchout 7of9 farm2 boy
elsanto pullout tear turmoil tears head in earth time passes gestation
birth baby headrises grass emerge therelft2 human therelft 3
there rt 2 animal over there rt 3 body5 lives raisehead dying fur
wind hoof&hand clasped ecstasy i eat

milk

die end

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