What the Family Built 2020

What the Family Built 2020I grew up on a farm: a bucolic tableau of rolling hills carpeted in fruit laden orchards and studded with historic buildings my ancestors began building over 150 years ago. Beautiful, perhaps, but my agrarian heritage has always been complicated by familial duty, financial burdens, and ancestral guilt. And while my familys farm remains, I have watched countless others succumb most often to financial pressures but in the best of cases they have been

Paper Size: 9" x 15"

The apple is a creative creature

I slept well and in the morning I started sketching

the god of dusk

Medium: Multi-Block Woodcut

it is easy to remain ignorant of its living complexity

I’ll wait until she moves on

But we felled the goliaths and burned away the life so we could plant rows and rows of sameness

Framing Option: 15" x 12" black aluminum frame with white matboard and regular glass

Gold finches flit and sing while yellow coneflowers bob their lazy heads in the breeze

“On the Horizon” seeks to investigate the wilderness oases we have designed into our urban environments and what their futures might hold

the evidence of humanity will not soon be erased