Whose Mountains are These?

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This block print is the feeling of seeing Mount Diablo looming over the lowlands of the Sacramento Delta system for the first time. A presence that anchors this little part of the world

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A FEELING, NOT A PHOTOGRAPH

As a child, the landscape around me was much larger than when I visit it now. The low New Jersey hills were mountains, a rocky outcropping was an old volcano, woods were a vast forest. When I moved to California in 2007, the landscape was again so much bigger than it is now to me. I would get lost easily in golden dry hills. Places like Mount Tam loomed on the horizon, just out of reach on foot. Places became entrenched in my mind as enchanted places. My own mythology of the land.

This is something I see when I study Japanese woodblock landscape prints. The relationship with the environment and the land that inhabits it is in a sense not what one would see but what one remembers about the place. A feeling, not a photograph.

This block print is the feeling of seeing Mount Diablo looming over the lowlands of the Sacramento Delta system for the first time. A presence that anchors this little part of the world. A giant that rests. A Japanese floating world-painted folding screen inspired the layout. Another enchanted landscape reflecting another.