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WOOD TO WATER SERIES: Grandfather's Pear Tree, 3 Editions, 2020
The Wood to Water Series began during a 2016 Residency at Mokuhanga Project Space in Walla Walla, Washington

The Pear Tree
mokuhanga (waterbased woodcut)
sumi ink on handmade Japanese kozo paper (washi)
Image: 15" x 11"
Edition: 6
Date: 2020

 

  

The Lake
mokuhanga (waterbased woodcut)
sumi and indigo on handmade Japanese kozo paper (washi)
Image: 11" x 15"
Edition: 6
Date: 2020

Pear Tree
mokuhanga (waterbased woodcut)
sumi and water-based pigment on handmade Japanese kozo paper (washi)
Image: 15" x 11"
Edition: 8
Date: 2020

 

  

Lake
mokuhanga (waterbased woodcut)
sumi and water-based pigment on handmade Japanese kozo paper (washi)
Image: 11" x 15"
Edition: 8
Date: 2020

Pear Tree II
mokuhanga (waterbased woodcut)
sumi and water-based pigment on handmade Japanese kozo paper (washi)
Image: 15" x 11"
Edition: 6
Date: 2020

 

  

Lake Ripples
mokuhanga (waterbased woodcut)
sumi and water-based pigment on handmade Japanese kozo paper (washi)
Image: 11" x 15"
Edition: 6
Date: 2020

Both the tree and the water prints stem from my drawing of the bark of a Pear tree that was planted in the 1940's by my maternal grandfather.
In 1951 he was picking vegetables near the lake and stepped on a cottonmouth snake that bit him. He later died.
The Pear Tree is a connection in time.