Salix Exigua (Sandbar coyote willow)
Salix Exigua (Sandbar coyote willow)
CA$400.00
19 x 25 inches
Silkscreen printed on dyed abacá paper with ink paste of sandbar willow. Abacá or Manila Hemp, is a palm tree fibre widely used in Asia for paper making and weaving. The abacá paper is chine-collé onto the Rives BFK printmaking. The sandbar willow is a plant indigenous to the similkameen river valley of eastern high desert region of British Columbia and Washington state.
The calligraphy is 沙貍柳樷 oracle Chinese text to name the plant.
Limited edition of 10, signed.