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About this work

This work is a small, square offset lithograph in black and white. It shows a few words and numbers scattered across the paper, like torn bits of a poster. The ink looks flat but the letters jump out, sharp and uneven. Rotella made these in the 1960s by gluing real poster scraps onto paper. He called it “decollage” — peeling back layers to reveal new images. Here, the words almost form a poem but don’t quite. Try looking up lithography next.