‘Father: Encounter on Dagobah’ by Tomer Hanuka
Another great Star Wars print is up sometime at Mondo today. ‘Father: Encounter on Dagobah’ by Tomer Hanuka who did a fantastic job with this one with Vaders mask in the trees. Measuring 19″ by 25″ screenprint by D&L and limited to 350.
The central idea going into this image was depicting planet Dagobah itself as a portrait of Luke’s subconscious in it’s most interesting and unformed phase. In a nightmarish sequence, Luke runs into the mist where he thinks he saw Vader. Luke finds him and a lightsaber duel ends with Vader’s decapitation . The mask cracks open on the severed head, exposing the frozen face of a dead Luke Skywalker. The suggestion here is that somewhere within Luke’s psyche there is a potential for ultimate evil. Luke’s greatest challenge isn’t the Galactic Empire and it’s endless, faceless troopers, but the magnetism of the dark side; the seductive idea of choosing his own potential for power over everything else.
