Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Dancing in the Garden: Circle of Friends

White line woodcut (unique print)
Watercolors on 140 lb Canson watercolor paper
9" x 12" (image) 11" x 14" (paper)

Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all the changes that take place around them; and as some reach a great age, they become, as it were, historical monuments,
and like ourselves they have a life, growing and passing away, --not being inanimate and unvarying like the fields and rivers.

One sees them passing through various stages, and at last step by step approaching death, which makes them look still more like ourselves.

- Wilhelm von Humboldt

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