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  • Cover artwork for King Lear in the Fifth Folio edition featuring folio typography set against a photograph from Mont Blanc in the Alps.
  • Shakespeare King Lear scene between Burgundy, Cordelia, and Lear superimposed over a fractured alpine snowscape. Literary collage wall art exploring pride, inheritance, emotional distance, and tragic negotiation through mountain photography and Shakespeare text montage.
  • Edgar and Edmund enact a high-altitude deception scene from *King Lear*, set against a precarious Alpine landscape where elevation becomes a metaphor for misreading, betrayal, and unstable perception. Suspended nearly 16,000 feet high, language and terrain mirror each other: shifting loyalties cut as sharply as rock faces, and trust thins in the air as Edmund performs honesty while engineering doubt.
  • King Lear’s world dissolves into Alpine vastness, where authority has no traction and meaning is carried only as far as the body can endure. As court language fades into weather, a solitary figure climbs the ridge beneath the collapsing order of the play—Exit Lear marked not by resolution, but by altitude, exhaustion, and the indifferent geometry of stone and snow.
  • A passage from King Lear in which Edgar intercepts letters and the Steward’s death is reported, set against an Alpine landscape that functions as a literal geography of exile, exposure, and concealment. The steep mountain terrain mirrors the play’s collapsing systems of authority and trust, where written messages become unstable carriers of truth and survival.
  • A passage from *King Lear* in which Cordelia reflects on her father’s condition and sends out concern for his welfare, layered over a snowbound Alpine landscape. The mountains in the background amplify the play’s emotional extremity—exile, endurance, and distance—turning Cordelia’s language of care and search into something physically vast and difficult, where affection must traverse a harsh and indifferent terrain.
  • Shakespeare King Lear final grief scene superimposed over an expressionist painting by Antoun Bittar. Literary collage exploring Cordelia’s death, aging, memory, sorrow, and psychological collapse through layered Shakespeare text and painterly abstraction.
  • Final cover artwork for King Lear in the Fifth Folio edition featuring Lear’s final lament, “Never, never, never, never, never,” layered over mist, melting water, and a pale sculptural face dissolving into the spray of Niagara Falls.
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King Lear, v1

King Lear, v1

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þe tragedie of KING LEAR.

Shakespeare King Lear scene between Burgundy, Cordelia, and Lear superimposed over a fractured alpine snowscape. Literary collage wall art exploring pride, inheritance, emotional distance, and tragic negotiation through mountain photography and Shakespeare text montage.

Edgar and Edmund enact a high-altitude deception scene from *King Lear*, set against a precarious Alpine landscape where elevation becomes a metaphor for misreading, betrayal, and unstable perception. Suspended nearly 16,000 feet high, language and terrain mirror each other: shifting loyalties cut as sharply as rock faces, and trust thins in the air as Edmund performs honesty while engineering doubt.

Cover artwork for King Lear in the Fifth Folio edition featuring folio typography set against a photograph from Mont Blanc in the Alps.

King Lear’s world dissolves into Alpine vastness, where authority has no traction and meaning is carried only as far as the body can endure. As court language fades into weather, a solitary figure climbs the ridge beneath the collapsing order of the play—Exit Lear marked not by resolution, but by altitude, exhaustion, and the indifferent geometry of stone and snow.
Alpine photos taken with my son Anton, 2023

A passage from King Lear in which Edgar intercepts letters and the Steward’s death is reported, set against an Alpine landscape that functions as a literal geography of exile, exposure, and concealment. The steep mountain terrain mirrors the play’s collapsing systems of authority and trust, where written messages become unstable carriers of truth and survival.

A passage from *King Lear* in which Cordelia reflects on her father’s condition and sends out concern for his welfare, layered over a snowbound Alpine landscape. The mountains in the background amplify the play’s emotional extremity—exile, endurance, and distance—turning Cordelia’s language of care and search into something physically vast and difficult, where affection must traverse a harsh and indifferent terrain.

Shakespeare King Lear final grief scene superimposed over an expressionist painting by Antoun Bittar. Literary collage exploring Cordelia’s death, aging, memory, sorrow, and psychological collapse through layered Shakespeare text and painterly abstraction.George Bernard Shaw, by Antoun, 1967

Final cover artwork for King Lear in the Fifth Folio edition featuring Lear’s final lament, “Never, never, never, never, never,” layered over mist, melting water, and a pale sculptural face dissolving into the spray of Niagara Falls.

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