Emmett Merrill
"Bye."
The following works are a suite of lithographs about folks using art to talk to the dead, or the dead using art to talk to them. A man uses homemade lanterns to illuminate the reflection of his dead girlfriend in a dark window - a chalk drawing of a young artist’s father begins to follow him around after his passing - a masked figure recites Greek Tragedy plays to a severed head out in the woods - A ghostly figure appears in the ivy hanging from a French Quarter balcony during a Mardi Gras parade, and so on

"The Visitor" 22x30 Lithograph on BFK Grey, 2023

"There it Goes" 22x30, Lithograph on BFK Grey, 2023

"Dionysus" 22x30, Lithograph on BFK Grey, 2023

"Bluebeard" 18x24, Lithograph on BFK, 2023

"Love Comes Back" 22x30, Lithograph on BFK Grey, 2023

"The Shadow" 22x30, Lithograph on BFK Tan, 2023