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aurora borealis

A relaxed polar bear sits back in the snow and admires the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights in this lino block print. The linocut is printed in a gradation of black through cobalt blue to white, on Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper, 11 inches by 14 inches (28 cm by 35.6 cm). There are seven prints in the edition.

 

I've been thinking a lot about the poles, and animals in the remarkable environment of the high arctic (and antarctic). A second theme in my work has been light in various forms. How could I resist the beauty of the aurora, where cosmic rays come to play with the geomagnetic field?

 

Did you know that polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore?

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Uploaded on March 6, 2012
Taken on March 6, 2012