Moku hanga Japanese method.
Print title: "Birch Spirit".
Paper size: 6.5" x 15"
Blocks: Birch plywood.
Paper: Japanese handmade Washi- Masa Dosa.
Inks: Black - neri zumi
and Guerra pigment dispersion.
Fine mica powder mixed into inks.
Hand-rubbed with Murasaki baren.
Created: March 2009.
Tanka poem handwritten on print:
Lady of the woods
a beacon to the stream
this white birch tree--
her parchment bark poems
float into opal twilight.
Bette Norcross Wappner (b'oki)
