20 years of extreme poverty, abuse of power and human rights violations stemming from the authoritarian rule of a President my people bravely resisted.
Today, February 25, 2022, my country celebrates the 36th anniversary of Edsa People Power Revolution. A remarkable display of unity to reclaim the democracy taken away by power hungry leadership.
Czech American wood engraver, illustrator, and type and book designer Rudolph Ruzicka (1883-1978) began to do a series of color wood-engraved city scenes in the 1910s: Newark, New York City, Prague, the fountains of Papal Rome. He began his series on Boston and its environs beginning in 1911 as annual New Year’s keepsakes for
D. B. Updike’s Merrymount Press, and would continue the series until a year after Updike’s death in 1941. These would be Ruzicka’s last set of multi-color wood engravings before he turned his attention mainly to type and book design.
