Baba Yaga

Baba Yaga (Slavik Folklore)
A mother, wanting her children to stay near the house, told them of the old woman who lived deep in the birch wood — whose hut walked on chicken legs, who flew through the air in a great wooden mortar, driving it with a pestle, and who ate children who wandered too far from home. The children believed her, and stayed close, growing up in the shadow of the wood rather than inside it.
Years later, one of them ventured into the wood regardless, curious now instead of afraid. She found no hut, no old woman, only birch trees and her own footprints in the snow. But she did not go further, for the fear planted long ago still held its ground.

~ A well-told warning outlives the truth of it.

Paper: A2 (420 × 594 mm) Fabriano Accademia 120 gsm
Image size: 300 × 350 mm

Hand-pulled linocut, hand-burnished, no press.
Printed with Caligo oil-based ink.
Original print, not a reproduction.
Slight variation in ink and finish is part of the process, not a flaw.
Edition of 30, numbered and signed.
Unframed, shipped in a protective tube.