Woodcut by Bryan Nash Gill
As a lover of natural textures, I can't help but admire these woodcut prints by Bryan Nash Gill. He makes relief prints of tree-trunk cross sections and blocks, which he harvests from felled trees, cedar telephone poles and discarded fence posts in his native Connecticut.
I love his method of cutting the blocks with a chain saw, sanding them down, burning them and sealing them with a lacquer before imprinting the result on a piece of washi paper. It seems to amplifies the patterns and tells the story of the life of the tree.
Unfortunately these gorgeous prints are a bit out of reach for me, but the book that will do just the trick.
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