Printed on archival, 100% cotton Hahnemühle Museum Etchings paper. 

Limited edition run of 50. Each signed and numbered by the artist. 

8x8" (paper), pre-matted to 12x12". Matted using museum quality cotton mat-board, and ready to be placed in an 12x12" frame.

Original: watercolor and ink on Arches cold-press paper, 2017.

CONCEPT:

Magnolia trees are fascinating, bizarre, and ancient. I was reading about the life cycle of the magnolia, from pod to flower to fruit, when I came across a line of text I couldn't shake: magnolia fruit, the text said, produces seeds that hang from delicate silky threads until birds or other animals come and take them, thus spreading the seed. 

These words-- the delicate silken threads, the dangling seeds-- absolutely captivated me. Though in reality the threads are quite short, the words allowed me to imagine a universe in which magnolia fruit produces long silken fibers, elegant and ethereal; in this universe, ,perhaps when a bird plucks the seed from the fruit, the silken thread trails after for miles and miles. I began thinking of the "silky threads" being used to weave tapestries, and thus a series was born. "Magnolia Fruit: Seed-Weavings 1" was the first painting to imagine this scenario, and asks the viewer to enter the surreal world of silken-magnolia-threads as well. 

If you like this piece, you can look at the other pieces in the Seed-Weaving and Tapestry series.