Nature by Henry David Thoreau
Created by using a handcarved rubber stamp, Henry David Thoreau's poem, Nature, is illustrated through creekbed imagery. The image is made by a series of reductive carvings. Working backwards, each printed color layer is a successively smaller section of the image. This process can only be done once per stamp, because once the next color is printed, the previous area on the stamp has already been cut away. For this print, the light yellowgreen was printed first (becoming the undertone for each following prints), then the green, and lastly the blue. Each ink was handmixed following the pantone booklet numbers. The poem was printed with handset metal type.
