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BOOK - "The Lot of Sisyphus"
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Artist Roger Doyle’s charcoal on paper images feature people in impossible situations—a man chained to an anvil, a being impossibly enmeshed in barbed wire—comically interspersed with surreal sketches of authority that evoke the pathos of human suffering. Maria Mazzenga’s poems explore the parameters of the visual artwork in ways that highlight the contradictions and humor in adversity, social control, and addiction.

For his cunning and trickery, King Sisyphus drew the wrath of the gods of Greek mythology. Forever condemned to an underworld where he was forced to roll an enormous rock up a hill, only to have it roll back down for him to begin again, we recall the king more for his punishment than for his deeds. The works in The Lot of Sisyphus explore extraordinary punishments and the conditions leading to them with curiosity, compassion, and humor.

DRAWINGS - charcoal and acrylic paint on rag paper, 44 images, size 11.5" x 19".

ALL WORKS - charcoal & acrylic paint on rag paper, 34 images, size 11.5" x 16" each.

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