Rota Fortunae

"Rota Fortunae," a color woodblock print by William Evertson (2020), shows a fair-haired figure grasping the rim of a large spoked wheel that dominates the lower half of the composition, one arm extended along its lower edge. The print is built from bold, fractured planes of color — mustard gold, deep indigo, sage green, brown, and white — with a mottled, high-contrast texture across the background and figure alike. The mood is dense and fragmented, the wheel's radiating spokes rendered in stark white against the dark, patterned surround.