Split Asunder, 2023, digital print on cotton rag, 17 x 39.5 in. / 43.18 x 100.33 cm.

Split Asunder, Thomas Crawford, 2023, digital print on cotton rag, 17 x 39.5 in. / 43.18 x 100.33 cm.

This print displays a vast urban worksite, seen from above, overlaid with an array of seven hatchets. Depending on how they are viewed, the tools either emerge from or disappear into the aerial landscape below. The hatchets are ambiguous -- are they instruments of creation or destruction instead?