Wood Block by Michael Miller: "Wave At Me", Framed

The title is a joke. The water is not.

Wave at Me is a framed wood block print by Michael Miller, made around 1976 on Arches paper, signed and numbered 9/25. A numbered edition tells you how many prints the artist chose to pull from the block, here twenty-five, and which one you are looking at. A bank of heavy black swells fills the sheet, scored with quick white cuts. Pale, wind-combed lines fill the sky above it. A dark border edges the image, and a gadrooned black frame closes it in. It is 36 inches wide and 31 high.

It waved first.