Neil Young 4 Birth of a Phoenix circa

Birth of a Phoenix circa 2011

Shannon O’Neill

The owls cross their wings as a parallel to the crossed bones in a skull and crossbones

Around this time my printer figured out the right setup for larger screenprints and asked if I'd be the first to use his new setup

If it goes well I'll look to do more in the future

Neil Young 4 Birth of a Phoenix circa24 x 18 7 color silkscreen edition of 150 I stared at Neil Young's name nearly every day for 3 months on my iCalendar leading up to the deadline for this. I felt a responsibility to push myself on this art and not repeat elements from a past Neil print I've made. In the end I settled on illustrating some of my favorite lyrics from After the Goldrush: "flying mother nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun". To me, the song is about mankind