“Dormancy” – 8″ x 10″ Matted Linocut Print

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!

“Dormancy” – 8″ x 10″ Matted Linocut Print

Of all the classrooms I’ve learned and taught in, the little plot of earth outside my bedroom windows will always top the list. Above all, the garden has taught me that there is a time for everything. There’s a time for growth and a time for decay, a time for germination and a time for dormancy. May this print guide you through periods of both growth and repose, serving as a reassuring reminder that all living creatures need rest in order to thrive.

“Dormancy” measures 8″ x 10″ and has been hand-drawn, carved, pressed, and colored by me on smooth Kitakata paper using a light-fast Black vegetable-oil based ink and an assortment of archival-quality, light-fast markers.

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Title: “Dormancy”
Materials: Kitakata Paper, Ink
Dimensions: 8″ x 10″ matted
Description: Hand-drawn, hand-carved, hand-printed, and hand-colored linocut

Fun Fact: This print was inspired by short days and long winters. Like all of my prints, it pairs best with a poem. From Ross Gay’s “Thank You,”

If you find yourself half naked
and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing,
again, the earth’s great, sonorous moan that says
you are the air of the now and gone, that says
all you love will turn to dust,
and will meet you there, do not
raise your fist. Do not raise
your small voice against it. And do not
take cover. Instead, curl your toes
into the grass, watch the cloud
ascending from your lips. Walk
through the garden’s dormant splendor.
Say only, thank you.
Thank you.