Not surprisingly, perhaps, the term the Three Sisters has been used to describe a number of very different things. Indigenous people of Northeast North America used this term to refer to the co-cultivation of corn, beans and squash (which support each other’s growth, as well as being nutritionally complementary). Interestingly, there are two sets of rock formations on opposite ends of the world which are each called the Three Sisters. One is in New South Wales, Australia; the other in Nova Scotia, Canada. The Nova Scotia rock formations lend their name to today’s print, though the picture does not itself portray the three “sea stacks” of rock, but rather a fishing shack in the area with a sign reading “3 Sisters”.
Today’s artist is again William Hays, Vermont painter-turned-printmaker producing incredibly detailed color prints using the technique of color reduction relief printing.
Three Sisters (Color reduction linocut)
