“To Starting Over” – 11″ x 14″ 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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“To Starting Over” – 11″ x 14″ Matted Linocut Print

This piece of muslin fabric soaked in a simmering bath of marigolds, mint, goldenrod, and turmeric for 24 hours to attain its rich and vibrant color. Once dyed and line-dried, I firmly pounded sunflower and marigold petals onto it to release their pigmentation. Paired with a hand-embroidered excerpt from Philip Larkin’s poem “The Trees” to remind you the time is always right for starting over.

Whether you or a loved one are navigating through a new journey or are simply choosing to start over, this print is bound to motivate you to continue creating yourself anew again and again. May it speak to you in a voice and language all your own, reassuring you that while last year may be dead, you – like the trees – have only just begun.

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Title: “To Starting Over”
Materials: Muslin, Botanical Dye, Flower Petal Pigmentation, Embroidery Thread
Dimensions: 11″ x 14″ Matted
Description: Eco-dyed and hand-embroidered botanical print

Fun Fact: I created this print after reading Philip Larkin’s poem, “The Trees,” which can be read in full below:

The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.

Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.