Coming into Focus

Easter breaks have made me go soft - I am doing too much reading - currently now re-reading Sebald and essays about him ( in large hardbacks) - he is the master of the unspeakable...

Perhaps what the Fool was employed to do at the Royal Courts was speak Truth to Power , all as a big joke.....

I am now focusing in on cutting the set preparing the blocks, size and grain direction, thinking about how many to each image - they need more complexity than the 'Ship of ' ones, more depth of focus;
and I am checking I have enough paper of the right kind - and how they will fit economically on the paper-size - this is a landscape format rather than portrait like Ship ....lots of burrowing under the bed and in the emptying sagging paper packets along the hall....
Fool seems to be becoming a more proactive figure than a reactive victim, but either way it doesn't bode well, he seems destined to the same end...will he die laughing like Petrushka or Tyl, possibly not....