On the Cover | Feb. 24, 2022
learn about this issue’s cover art
artwork by Joe Maurer |
Volume One finds its cover art in a number of ways, from local art shows to random emails to knowing someone who knows someone who knows a great artist. The art always originates from a current or former Chippewa Valley resident. If you'd like to submit cover art, send us a message.‘Deutsch Family Farm’ by Joe Maurer
Joe Maurer is happy that all structures are impermanent.
“Deutsch Family Farm” (oil, wax and collage on wood panel 24”x36”) • From the artist: “The image- making process started by looking backward. Working in collage with Midwestern newspapers from the wartime 1940s, I used a technique to preserve the newspapers in wax. The intermingling of paint, wax, and newsprint created a tension between the past and present, figure and ground. A palimpsest was created by allowing the newspapers from the past to peek through the painting. In this way, time and space became fluid in the depicted landscape. Analogously, many techniques of farming have modernized or changed, but the scale of the farm still represents one of the major factors in rural quality of life in Wisconsin.”
