We Dare You

Joseph Michael Essex · c. 2000s · Offset lithograph

A full bleed crimson field carries a hand drawn, almost medieval setting of Theodore Roosevelt's "Citizenship in a Republic" address, the line about daring mighty things rendered like a typographic sermon. Below the bear mark attribution, a small black coda reads "WE DARE YOU," restraint and provocation in one breath.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt

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