Joshua Forest
Woodcut
9"x16"
Edition 200 - Various Hand Made Paper

Block:     Cherrywood
Ink:         Black, tinted, oil based
Paper:     Available in above, Mulberry Natural
               Also available in:  Hanhemulle Lt. Green, Niggeden Tan (see at bottom of page)
Process:  One block, sketched while hiking
Image:     Deserts have forests too! Not those lush Northwest pine forests nor the thick and impenetrable Southern swamp forests, but forests nonetheless. Rugged Joshuas "drink" perhaps once or twice a year, growing to more than 30 feet high and bearing a hard luscious fruit that is unfit for human consumption. Through 120 degree F heat, the Joshuas can't have leaves, in the true sense of the word, for to have leaves in the desert is to expose precious surface to the sun rays and their relentless evaporative power--to lose moisture is to die.

 

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