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2025
Collagraph monoprints with counter and ghost prints, pochoir, stencils, oil inks on handmade Japanese unryu washi printed from two plates
72” x 24”
Asian Gift uses rhubarb in the immediate to environment of my studio. I celebrate the hardiness of the vegetation, with a nod to the 19th century English botanist Anna Atkins who made cyanotype versions of plant specimens. Rhubarb volunteers itself yearly, drought or not, outside my studio-a homesteaded plot in the American West. I’d thought it the quintessential American plant but it is a gift from China, used medicinally since 2700 BCE and spread west in the 1800’s, from the east coast of the USA. I respect its’ tenacity and have enlivened and expanded coloration. A later version, done in the midst of high altitude “fire season”, the end of summer, veiling all in smoke, the clearest evidence of climate crisis. In my hanging scroll works, I try to relieve my subliminal distress of climate change within the fragile ecosystem of Wyoming using local weeds and cultivars.
2025
Collagraph monoprints with counter and ghost prints, pochoir, stencils, oil inks on handmade Japanese unryu washi printed from two plates
72” x 24”
Asian Gift uses rhubarb in the immediate to environment of my studio. I celebrate the hardiness of the vegetation, with a nod to the 19th century English botanist Anna Atkins who made cyanotype versions of plant specimens. Rhubarb volunteers itself yearly, drought or not, outside my studio-a homesteaded plot in the American West. I’d thought it the quintessential American plant but it is a gift from China, used medicinally since 2700 BCE and spread west in the 1800’s, from the east coast of the USA. I respect its’ tenacity and have enlivened and expanded coloration. A later version, done in the midst of high altitude “fire season”, the end of summer, veiling all in smoke, the clearest evidence of climate crisis. In my hanging scroll works, I try to relieve my subliminal distress of climate change within the fragile ecosystem of Wyoming using local weeds and cultivars.