Original Surfboard Wood Cut Print 4'x7' "Vessel"

Framed, Hand printed copper and black Large 4 foot by 7 foot wood block print on heavyweight Canson 250 gsm Bright White paper. This print is an original one of a kind print, hand printed from hand carved wood. The artistry of this wood block print is found both in the process and the object. The consistency and violence of the ocean is emulated through the carving process. Just as ocean waves of different sizes, shapes and directions crash ashore, carving out the shape of the coastline, the artist's knives, gouges, and chisels strike the wood planks carving out the shape of the surfboard. Over time, with the violence of this repetitious movement, a form is carved from the formless.The significance of the surfboard itself is in the surfboard's meaning to the surfer. It is the vessel that takes the surfer into the sea. It is his object of reverence, the conduit through which he experiences the power and passion of the sea.The printed surfboard is the record of the seas influence upon th