El Paradiso, 2023

Reduction mokuhanga on Yamaguchi washi

Made from two reduced woodblocks with16 layers of color

11 x 26 inches

“That warm air,

Flowing south from the desert’s sun, 

Meets the moist breeze from a western ocean. 

Together in our valley, We plant orchards. 

Orange blossoms, that sweet scent,

Fills our minds, our hearts

And dissolves those painful memories

Of lives, now past.”