Medium: Color etching
Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1969
Edition: of 25

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(Art Photographer / Marketing and Exhibitions Specialist) 

We humans consume, use, and abuse the power we feel entitled to with nature. ‘In the Deep Dark Woods’ we are reminded that there is more to this world than our ease and comfort. Trees, plants, the land, and creatures all bear witness to what we are doing. The woods are wild, but so are we. Sometimes it takes a healthy dose of fear and discomfort to reconnect to the larger web of life we often ignore behind our screens.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 11 x 24 5/8 inches
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 44

Poem: When we went to Urayon, one white butterfly calmly flew over the Dong-Gong.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 24 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 24

Poem: A one-legged frog is swimming around. You, as you are now, are perfect.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 18 x 21 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2009
Edition: of 20

Poem: "Heart" This is one word. To safeguard it is better than trying to save life.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 18 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2009
Edition: of 20

Poem: We were afraid of you. That's why we risked our lives.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 18 x 21 1/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 33

Poem: On a snowy day, in the little basket, the seeds wait for spring.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 18 x 20 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2002
Edition: TP

Poem: Today several cuckoos flew into a grove of tall trees. Oh, I saw the path in the sky those cuckoos followed to fly.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 24 x 12 1/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 29

Poem: On Buddha's birthday, the child asks. "Did you go to the temple?" "Yes, I did." "What did you do there?" "I had lunch." "Was that all you did?" "Oops, my bodhisattva daughter!"

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 20 1/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2000
Edition: of 43

Poem: A foggy day. Beside the bamboo grove. I warm my heart with a sip of tea.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 3 1/2 x 23 inches
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 53

Poem: Sleep without dream, labor without thought. With a clear, empty mind everyday is a good day.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 24 x 13 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2002
Edition: of 33

Poem: On a drizzly day, we drank red tea outside in the rain. 

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 18 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 27

Poem: Early in the spring, the dandelion has not yet blossomed. The mind already sees its spores flying away.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2004
Edition: of 41

Poem: A moving seed cannot sprout. Stay calm.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: Korean, 1954
Date finished: 2003
Edition: of 41

Poem: Dear! Do you hear the birds chirping? The chirping you hand over to me!

Medium: Etching, collagraph, relief, chine-collé
Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1967
Date finished: 1998
Edition: of 30

Recommended by Nikki (Fine Print Photographer & Content Publisher):

"Collagraph is a medium that became popular in the ‘60s after synthetic adhesives and plastics became more readily available. Artists from all over the world were invited to visit the studio of Glen Alps in Seattle, WA to try out the process of gluing substrates, scribing marks into the dried substrates, and printing the results as intaglio plates. This relatively new medium has continued its popularity  in the studios of contemporary artists, like Akiko Taniguchi. In ‘Atom’, Taniguchi is using texture and layering on her collagraph to pull the viewer into her 10x8 inch world of abstraction. In it, viewers get to explore the word ‘atom’ within complimentary red and green hues and explosive almond shapes. Every square inch of the print is delightfully filled with new and interesting textures that only collagraph can offer."