The Tommy Peeperz, Woodcut, 2010-2014

Side panels 40″x62, center panel 50″x62″

The center panel is a cutaway titled Ad Oculos, Latin for It’s obvious if everyone sees it. “It’s a cutaway image of underwater. You can see the water from under like it was in an aquarium or something with a sperm-doily border. There’s bubbles everywhere but I left the water black. You still think its water because you see bubbles.” Stephanie “was the lifeguard at the pool. I was in the shallow end. I was in fourth grade and she was a senior in high school. I was underwater with my goggles on and snorkel. And while I was underwater Stephanie decided to dive off of her perch into the deep end and when she hit the water her top came down for a half second. and I saw her tits for a half second. After a half a second she pulled her top back up and I was like GULP almost drowning. That was 1983 and this was started in 2012 so how many years later is that? 29
years later i decided to spend four years making art about Stephanie Harrelson. What does that tell you? I’m working it out man.”

- Tom Hück, taken from the book “The Devil Is In The Details: Tom Hück Prints 1995-2020, Published by Fine Print Small Press 2022

View “The Tommy Peepers” IN DEPTH HERE