My work investigates underrepresented stories from history, drawing on the artistic languages and processes contemporaneous to those stories.
‘Bundschuh’ is an ongoing comic following the lives of two German women in the 14th and 15th centuries. One is a fictional peasant, the other a real noblewoman and writer; Argula von Grumbach. Their lives sit in a backdrop of many failed peasant uprisings, escalating into the German Peasants’ Revolt of 1524–25.
Many of the issues which the peasantry faced then are still present 500 years later, such as oppressive taxation, unaffordable rent, the privileges of the upper classes, and inadequate political representation.
While mostly drawn, letterpress and woodcut prints are interspersed throughout the comic; burgeoning technologies which helped to spread revolutionary ideas further than before.
An ongoing comic following two women from opposite ends of the class spectrum, leading up to the German Peasants’ Revolt of 1524–25. The comic combines drawn panels with letterpress and woodcut printing, growing technologies from the time.