Process & Materials
Linocuts
Concept & Background
Part of a series of Shakespeare covers, my design for Hamlet offers a fresh take on the play’s most iconic image: Yorick’s skull. Rather than simply depicting the skull, I’ve surrounded it with worms. This visual directly responds to Hamlet’s macabre and ironic wit in Act 4, Scene 3, where he taunts Claudius after Polonius’s death, illustrating how death renders all social status meaningless.
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”
