Curtainfall is the complete collection of all six volumes in the haunting art series that reimagines the Buffalo Nickel as a stage for the forgotten circus. With over 180 black-and-white engravings, each coin in this collection bears the face of a skeletal figure — not as a symbol of death, but as an echo of presence. These are not memories trapped in applause. They are souls etched into stillness — the clowns, contortionists, mystics, beast tamers, and ringmasters who never left the ring, only slipped into shadow.
Each full-page portrait is paired with a poetic story or ghostly vignette, creating a séance in ink and metal. From The Last Clown to Forgotten Carnival, these engraved lives whisper through silver and silence. Inspired by Depression-era hobo nickels, folk horror, and vintage Americana, Curtainfall honors not the act, but what remained after. The bones. The breath. The rhythm. The ones who never bowed — because the show, somehow, still goes on.