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relief prints

ORIGINAL DESIGNS, HAND-CARVED & PRINTED

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The Whitebark Pine Tree is indigenous to the North American Rockies and is unique due to it's symbiotic relationship to the Clark's Nutcracker, a local small bird population. These trees are essential for supplying the local animals with enough seeds to survive winter. They are currently endangered due to a European fungal infection called blister rust. However, a few trees have shown genetically resistant to the fungus, and a reforestation effort is underway.

For this piece I was very inspired by Jamie Hewlett's illustrative Pine Tree series, and I wanted to make my own version with the unique twisting bark of the Whitebarks.This work was produced for the Broken Equilibrium Show at the University of Oregon Fall 2021
Relief Print - 12x8in
November 2021

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