“Perspective” – 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!

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

17th century samurai and poet Mizuta Masahide wrote the haiku that inspired this print after watching his barn burn to the ground. Instead of lamenting his losses, he celebrates his newfound view of the moon. He, like Rumi, realizes that the wound is the place where the light enters us.

May “Perspective” challenge you to maintain your search for truth and beauty among the rubble. To turn that tragedy into triumph. To look up at the moon and bathe in her beauty, allowing her light to fill your every wound with the reassurance that we sometimes must be torn apart in order to put ourselves back together in better ways.

Measuring 8″ x 10″ matted, “Perspective” has been hand-drawn, carved, pressed, and colored on Mulberry paper using a light-fast Black vegetable-oil based ink. It was hand-colored using archival quality, light-fast markers.

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Title: “Perspective”
Materials: Unbleached Mulberry paper, Ink
Dimensions: 8″ x 10″ matted
Description: Hand-drawn, hand-carved, hand-printed, and hand-colored linocut

Fun Fact: When the original Lewis School burnt down in the early 1900s, the fine folk of Excelsior Township came together for a community “barn raising.” Barn raising, which was particularly common in 18th and 19th century rural North America, is a collective action of a community in which a barn – or schoolhouse – is rebuilt together.