Woodcut — Petal inked-blooms Works for a birthday

Works for a birthday

the composition held in balance between blue mass and open white

visible once you know to look for them

rendered the way Harvest rendered autumn

organic and precise at once

Woodcut — Petal inked-blooms Works for a birthdayTwo shapes, taking turns. Neither one enough without the other. Petal pairs two distinct folk motifs in strict alternating columns a full open daisy, centered inside an oval leaf frame like something pressed and preserved, and a bold tulip stem with splayed leaves rising beside it. They repeat across the entire surface in deep black on white, each form holding its ground, the two of them producing a vertical rhythm that reads as a single thing rather