Name: "Among the Wildflowers" - 8″ x 10″ Matted Linocut Print
SKU: 1192
Price: 20.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Gone away on a pinecone-picking, window-fixing, clothes-mending, tree-tending, mushroom-chopping, island-hopping, soil-building, plant-guilding, music-making, Grass Laking sabbatical. See you all on the other side and, as always, thank you for your continued support!

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“Among the Wildflowers” – 8″ x 10″ Matted Linocut Print

To remind you again and again that so long as you are among wildflowers and wild things, you are never alone. During these past few months of social isolation, I’ve been spending more quality time than ever with nature, where I’ve come to the profound realization that even when we are feeling our loneliest, we are surrounded in every direction by life, beauty, light, and the chance for connection. May “Among the Wildflowers” serve to remind you to keep those bright eyes open. Once they have opened to the mysteries and marvels of the world, they will behold skies exploding with creatures in flight, and earth erupting with growth. May they remain open always to earth’s little kingdoms and joyful surprises . May you stay, always, among the wildflowers.

Measuring 8″ x 10″ matted, this piece was one of my all-time favorites to create, and remains one of my all-time favorites to look at. “Among the Wildflowers” has been hand-drawn, carved, printed, and embroidered by me onto organic cotton muslin and arrives ready to frame or gift. It was printed using Yellow Ochre, Naphthol Red, and Black light-fast vegetable-oil based ink, and embroidered using 100% organic cotton thread that has been dyed Golden Yellow in a bath of Marigold, Sunflower, and Sunchoke petals.

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Title: “Among the Wildflowers”
Materials: Muslin, Ink, Embroidery Thread
Dimensions: 8″ x 10″ matted
Description: Hand-drawn, hand-carved, hand-printed, and hand-embroidered linocut

Fun Fact: This print was largely inspired by “Sleeping in the Forest,” by Mary Oliver. Full poem can be read below!

I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.