A small art print to honor the fiddle tune with the same name. It's also meant to honor the idea of "fiddlin' around in the printshop" and allowing the print to develop without a specific plan. It's built with antique newspaper cuts, handset foundry type, relatively recently cast Linotype machine cast ornamentation, and other foundry cast decorative material.
The text on the back reads:
Flat Foot in the Ashes is an ancient-sounding American fiddle tune from central West Virginia. Harvey Sampson recorded this tune in 1986, and released an album named after it. His version of the tune is most likely the version you'll hear today. The fiddle tune has been traced back to the early 19th century. It's an up-lifting jaunty little ditty, to today's ear it almost has a nursery-rhyme quality to it. In the early oughts of this century my buddy Jason Noice taught me this tune, and lent me his fiddle so I could practice on it. I haven't played it in a while, but once this printing is complete, I'll pick up the fiddle and give it a go....
And indeed, here's a quick video of me scratching the tune out while in the printshop.