“Many Swans” – 5″ x 7″ 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!

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“Many Swans” – 5″ x 7″ Matted Linocut Print

Measuring 5″ x 7″ matted, I created “Many Swans” as a reminder to myself that each new day presents us with an endless number of ways to sprout and bloom and grow. May it awaken your inner longing like an open flower in bloom and inspire you to cultivate your own growth mindset. May each morning find you getting up and growing, climbing arrows into the sky.

“Many Swans” was pressed using a hand-carved block of linoleum. It was printed using a special technique called chine-collé. After carefully cutting out my desired shapes from tissue paper, I roll ink onto my block of linoleum. I then brush a small amount of rice paste on the backside of each shape and place them atop my block in the desired location paste-side up. Once each of the pieces of paper is atop my block, I carefully place a new sheet of paper to hand-press the print. This print, in particular, was pressed onto an eco-friendly paper handmade in Nepal from the fiber of the Lokta Bush using Black light-fast vegetable-oil based ink.

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Title: “Many Swans”
Materials: Lokta Paper, Tissue Paper, Nori Paste, Ink
Dimensions: 5″ x 7″ Matted
Description: Hand-drawn, hand-carved, hand-printed, and hand-colored chin-collé linocut

Fun Fact: Inspired by Amy Lowell’s Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians, this quote in particular derives from the following excerpt:

Sunlight struck sidewise on a chain of arrows, below were cold clouds above a sky blooming like an open flower and he aiming to the heart of it. Many Swans saw that up was far, and down was also far, but he cried to himself that he had begun his journey to the sun. Then he pulled a bush from his hair, and the twigs had leaved and fruited, and there were salmon-berries dancing beneath the leaves. “My father, the sun, is good,” said Many Swans, and he eat the berries and went on climbing the arrows into the heart of the sky.