Land Ethic Original Painted Woodcut
Land Ethic Original Painted Woodcut
This is a hand-painted woodcut Land Ethic on 1” birch plywood. This piece was made in response to reading Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac and refers to his concept of Land Ethic.
“The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.” “…a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members,and also respect for the community as such.”
Measures 17.5” x 30”
Has wire hanger so it’s ready to hang w/o a frame
This is a giclee reproduction ( archival pigment ink on high quality archival paper) of the original Mars painted woodcut with additional embellishments.
Mars is one of ten in the series called Planetary Bodies which attribute feminine virtues to Goddesses representing planetary objects . Mars represents vulnerability.