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Buddha
Buddha
Watercolor Woodblock (mokuhanga)
13x13 image on 17x19 paper

The last two artist's proofs of this print from my "Relics" series are still available. From my description of the series:

I wanted to work with photo-realistic halftone images of icons and statues from various religious traditions because I like the way the images, much like religion itself, come apart and coalesce depending on your distance from them. I hand carved the blocks with a knife and small u-gouges. This arduous process, trying to make 6,000 perfect circles with my imperfect tools and my shaky hand and my farsighted middle-aged eyes, seems precisely what religion at its best calls forth in a human being — the human striving for something perfect, beautiful and pure in the midst of the imperfection and hardship of life.