Garden Variety Sisyphus

"Garden Variety Sisyphus" (2019) by William Evertson is a color woodblock print showing a nude male figure in a straining, hunched pose, bent forward with one leg braced against a dark rock-like mound as if pushing or climbing. His body, rendered in bold black-and-white cross-hatching, is surrounded and partly obscured by large stylized flowers—gray-blue daisies, pink poppies, and small yellow and blue blossoms—filling the composition against a white background. The palette is limited to soft pink, gray-blue, pale yellow, and black line work, giving the scene a decorative, flattened quality despite the figure's strained musculature.