After a most fearsome year of social distancing, home lockdowns and life-threatening illnesses, it was a relief to finally feel like we’re in the beginning stages of a newfound freedom, walking around outside at a local art festival, viewing visual explosions of sheer creativity by talented locals that, I’m sure, have been nearly dying for area attention all year as well.

Armed with a bunch of canvases, a lot of dark paint and one fucking big steamroller, the apropos Steamroller Print Fest 2021, sponsored by Artspace at Untitled, was held down in Deep Deuce this past Saturday, bringing together two human properties you rarely see in the same sport—the art crowd and the construction crowd—coinciding as the mighty machine created art right before me by using the woodprints by artists and the steamroller as a press, combining the two in artistic bliss.

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Heavy Duty: The Steamroller Print Fest 2021