Wrecking Yard II

The second print in the pair revisits the salvage-yard subject from a different vantage or with a different selection of forms. Working in pairs and series was a regular feature of Dennis's practice, drawn partly from the Japanese ukiyo-e convention of issuing related views of a single site. Where I might emphasize the broader layout of the yard, II likely focuses on a particular quadrant — a stack of vehicles, a piece of heavy equipment, a corner of fencing. The relief medium continues to suit the dense, fragmented subject: the carved line registers ruptures and edges of metal, while flat blocks describe the larger shapes of car bodies and ground. Together the two prints function less as identical states than as adjacent observations, recording the yard the way a landscape printmaker might record a single mountain from two angles. The pairing reflects Dennis's documentary attention to industrial sites.