Me And The Devil Blues part 1

Time for the last Robert Johnson print in this series.  This is the last because I have no more ideas, and because the planned show is not happening now.  I continued the series beyond learning that the Nashville show wasn't happening, because I still had some ideas, and it was still a series to work on, but it will end with this one.  When they will be exhibited I have no idea, but I don't see that as a problem right now.

This last one is Me and the Devil Blues, which is a fairly evil song (as one might expect), but I had one more idea from my original list, so I decided to do it.  The lyric I chose is "you may bury my body, down by the highway side" (the line that follows is "so my evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride")  As such, this is one of the most literal interpretations in this series of prints, showing an area next to the highway where a body has been buried, and a little piece of a 50's era Greyhound bus (actually combined bits of two buses of that era) stopped by the highway side to pick up few passengers.  No sign of Johnson rising from his grave to board that bus, so maybe he did it already, or maybe it has yet to happen.  I put an exit sign near the point in the highway that the bus has stopped, with a sign that combines aspects of a local road sign (see the above photo) and actual signs from the Garden State Parkway and I-57 in Illinois, since Johnson is known to have passed that way in his travels. (found those other signs on the internet, which has everything if you know where to look for  it)  The background plants make use of plants I have used in previous prints, and images from those internet photos. 

As I was busy working on my block I got a surprise visit- Molly.  She doesn't often come in at this time to work, but today she did, so naturally we had some conversation around bits of silence as we were working.  My goal was to complete my usual starting point- the outside margins of the image area.   I got all that done, and Molly worked on some towels, adding more silkscreened bits to each of some already started.  The music I put on (the Gun Club, first album and some from a live album, appropriate for today's print it seemed) ended, so I decided to leave the Studio to Molly and get to my next stop.