High Sierra - from the "Voices and Visions" Fort Mason Printmakers portfolio

Phyllis Taplitz

From the portfolio of 22 etchings by 22 artists, titled "Voice and Visions: A Book of Poems and Etchings." Printed by the Fort Mason Printmakers in San Francisco under the direction of Eleanor Rappe, each work was inspired by a poem of the artist's choice, corresponding to their assigned category: Part I, Of Love and Loss; Part II, Upon the Earth; Part III, Under the Heavens; Part IV, Journeys of the Mind; and Part V, Metamorphoses.

This print is from the third category: Under the Heavens. Its corresponding poem was "Reflections" by Easley Stephen Jones:

Never be too sure / Which is the false, the true, many seeming / When beauty hovers by / And chores are lost in dreaming, / Nor whether 'tis sky or sea the mountains bear, / Nor if the boatman sails on glass or air.