Right Turn

David H. Becker

David Becker used both etching and engraving to create this surreal image. Printmaker/author Warrington Colescott used this image to illustrate Becker's work in the book "Progressive Printmakers - Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance", page 155 and includes a photo of Becker in his Detroit, Michigan studio with the plate for "Right Turn" on an easel.

On page 150 Colescott quotes Becker regarding the responses to the content of his imagery: "Descriptions I have heard or read of the work, most of which either delight or offend me, are: allegorical, apocolyptic, provocative, prophetic, dream-like, surreal, fantastic, weird, frightening, disturbing, demanding, despairing, disgusting, irrelevant, inspiring, old, new-old, fascinating, morbid, medieval, bizarre, cathardic, mystery-plays (I like that), and well drawn."

Again, on page 148: "I never worried about that part; the narrative would take care of itself. I was told as a student 'If you want to tell a story, write a book'..."