Homage signals an explicitly reverential work — a print in which Joel Stewart acknowledges an influence, a tradition, or a predecessor. Given his deep engagement with both Western printmaking and Japanese visual culture, the subject of his tribute could be a Japanese craft tradition such as the tea ceremony, the practice of [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) woodblock printing, or the spare compositional language of Zen ink painting. Alternatively, Homage may pay tribute to a specific artist whose work shaped Stewart's own sensibility. The composition likely draws on the visual vocabulary of its subject — perhaps adopting the vertical orientation and restrained palette of Japanese hanging scrolls, or referencing the flat graphic forms of the woodblock print tradition within an etching medium. The tension between the Western intaglio technique and the Japanese aesthetic being honored gives the work its conceptual charge.
Homage was created by Joel Stewart.
Homage uses Etching and Lithograph, on etching.
Homage depicts still life.
