Highwayman

2022, monotype

Highwayman is a tribute to the song of the same name, released in 1985 by the country supergroup The Highwaymen, consisting of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. The song tells of the lives and deaths of three incarnations of the same soul throughout time, as an English highwayman (robber), a sailor on the high seas, and a Hoover Dam construction worker. Each incarnation is brought to life in this series, complete with a “common thread,” a rope connecting the pieces that is also implicated in the lyrical deaths of each of the three characters (hanging, rigging collapse, slip and fall).