FLORENCE NEAL - Grandfather's Pear Tree

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The Pear Tree
mokuhanga (waterbased woodcut)
sumi ink on handmade Japanese kozo paper (Shin-Hosho washi)
Image: 15" x 11"
Edition: 6
Date: 2020

Pear Tree
mokuhanga (waterbased woodcut)
sumi and water-based pigment on handmade Japanese kozo paper (Shin-Hosho washi)
Image: 15" x 11"
Edition: 8
Date: 2020

Pear Tree II
mokuhanga (waterbased woodcut)
sumi and water-based pigment on handmade Japanese kozo paper (Shin-Hosho washi)
Image: 15" x 11"
Edition: 6
Date: 2020

Wood to Water Series
Three varying editions of the Pear tree. The forms stem from my drawing of the bark of a Pear tree in Alabama. This tree was planted in the 1940's by my maternal grandfather. In 1951 he was picking vegetables and stepped on a poisonous water moccasin (cottonmouth snake) that bit him. He later died. The Pear tree was planted inside a large tractor tire that is barely visible today. The tree is a connection in time.
The series consists of wood prints and water prints using the same tree bark woodblocks. Link