This is an early portrait of my primary model, Sarah, whose image appears again and again in these pages. This is a detail from an image of her full standing figure made about ten years ago. I have been looking forward to printing this for a long time, but have lacked the skills I felt I needed until now. I began printing about half-way to dark and continued to print deeper and deeper with each successive block. The finished print is VERY blue and feels like hanging in very deep Caribbean water looking to infinity. Blue, blue, blue. Very beautiful print, very nice to look at, very satisfying!
"Sarah", May 15, 2004, 30 x 21 inches, woodblock print from 19 cherry plywood blocks, dry pigment and neri-zumi in paste of rice starch on Iwano Ichibei hosho, 12 sheets