DICE PRINTING NO GAMBLE

Brooklyn artist Stukenborg leaves no room for chance in his 'letterpress dice prints': classical patterns emerge when arranging the dice to plan.

PLAYING CARDS

To break the monotony of army life, gambling your wages playing cards has been the solution for centuries.

To break the monotony of a crippled veteran's life, gambling your pension playing cards turns out to be a good solution as well.

Otto Dix, a german machinegunner in the trenches of Flanders in the First World War, made many drawings, etchings and paintings both about the soldier on the battlefield as well as about his distorted post-war life in the big modern city.



Otto Dix, 'Skatspieler' (1920)

ACE OF SPADES

The 'card of death' it is called, the ace of spades, famous for it's use in black ops of the Vietnam war.

London based artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz made a large drawing of a Warholian double-Elvis-Presley-gunslinger with skulls and aces of spades imposed. Death is present in both the death artists as well as the iconography.



Wolfe von Lenliewicz, 'Elvis' from the Plura Culture series (2009)