Woodcut — Petal inked-blooms Works for a birthday

Works for a birthday

visible once you know to look for them

and fill the available space

The Chalice takes the same mandala as the Knot — triangle knots

with fine crosshatch lines running between

Woodcut — Petal inked-blooms Works for a birthdayTwo shapes, taking turns. Neither one enough without the other. Petal pairs two distinct folk motifs in strict alternating columns a full open daisy, centered inside an oval leaf frame like something pressed and preserved, and a bold tulip stem with splayed leaves rising beside it. They repeat across the entire surface in deep black on white, each form holding its ground, the two of them producing a vertical rhythm that reads as a single thing rather