Between calendar

Between calendar2024 ShelterRipple River Gallery, Aitkin, MN The intricate and precise pattern of holes on the birch tree depicted in Between were created by a sapsucker looking for, as its name indicates, the sweet sap of the tree. But his frenetic effort created many future shelters for insects and fungi on a tree that was already at the end of its life. Sometimes shelter comes at a cost. Medium: Color Reduction Woodcut & Collagraph Year: 2024 Edition Size: 16

50" in size and blank on the inside

Paper Size: 10" x 13"

As I approached a bend

an ethereal web of tiny white tendrils twist and tunnel their way through the earth while their fleshy fruit reach up into the red

Early American apiaries devoted large tracts of land otherwise too wet for wildflowers to the cultivation of purple loosestrife for its copious nectar-filled blooms

in contrast

Image Size: 14" x 20"

Year: 2022

It incorporates hand-collaged colored paper with a torn piece of an original proof from my Light's Last I print edition

But then the tempo drops

Gold finches flit and sing while yellow coneflowers bob their lazy heads in the breeze

I had walked this stretch before passing this very spot