Lookout, Bird in a Tree

2021

91 × 60 cm / 35 ⅞ × 23 ⅝″

EV of 15

Format prints: edition variable

Medium reduction woodcut, hand painting

Available work

EV1/15

EV3/15

There is a paradox in Lookout Bird in a Tree where the onlooker can only imagine the view from the tree tops. It’s a very one way image that shuts us out of this aerial vantage point. Metaphorically it seems to increase our isolation because it is alluding to a very different experiential reality. The mechanics of this woodcut were very simple but incredibly time consuming, carving out foliage and branches took a couple of weeks in the studio. – TH

Lookout brush and ink drawing