Eastern Hemlock

Summer 2022, 5 prints at 47 x 31.5 inches, 2 prints 31.5 x 23.5 inches printed on Hahnemühle Copperplate.

The paper was left on the forest floor for 6 weeks during a drought in the summer of 2022 using 150-year-old decayed Eastern Hemlock tree as the matrix to imprint a brief history of decay, weather, soil, fungus and sanctuary on the floor of the forest. The Eastern Hemlock Forest is slowly dying from infestations of woolly adelgid that arrived 1951 killing Hemlock trees across the Appalachians’ decimating the forest as did the chestnut blight before it.