Medium: Laser-engraved illustration on natural maple wood

Dimensions: 12 inches x 18 inches

Year: 2025

A tribute carved in rhythm, fire, and folklore—etched portraits of the men who gave America its first great cry. In this trio of laser-engraved works, Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, and Lightnin’ Hopkins emerge not just as musicians, but as mythmakers—ghost storytellers whose sound shaped everything from rock to redemption.

Each portrait is surrounded by symbols of the road: broken hearts, crossroads, devils, whiskey bottles, lightning bolts, and bent guitars—visual echoes of the lives they lived and the legends they left behind.

Robert Johnson – The haunted origin myth. His legend—selling his soul for song—burns through the wood like a warning and a blessing.

These aren’t clean-cut tributes. They’re spiritual relics, burned into birch like back-porch sermons. The wood grain becomes the rhythm, the engraved lines the lyric. The result is raw, alive, and honest—just like the blues.