2025 | Personal Project

This piece was made for the Friends of Calligraphy Kalligraphia 2025 exhibit at the San Francisco Public Library

I’ve picked up the hobby of watching birds in the tree outside my window when I feel overwhelmed. “Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson—written during the Civil War—has felt very poignant lately. There’s always the hope of the carefree bird hopping from branch to branch.

Medium: Indigo ink stick, Pointed pen, Natural hair brushes, Watercolor, Wax pencil, 140lb. Hot press Fabriano Artistico watercolor paper