Queen

A large black ant, rendered in dense etched crosshatching with long jointed legs and antennae, strides diagonally across the lower portion of a mustard-yellow plate that darkens to near-black shadow at the bottom corners. In the upper right, a solid orange-red rectangle sits above a thin horizontal line, the only other marks on the otherwise flat yellow ground. The sheet is printed on cream wove paper with wide margins, pencil-inscribed below with the edition number "1/6," the title "'Queen,'" and the signature "J. May 25" — an intaglio etching by Julie May, 2025.