Dark Pastorale 1

Micah Schwaberow

Known for his masterful color woodcuts rendered in a painterly fashion, Micah Schwaberow achieves equal, deft beauty using a monotone palette in “Dark Pastorale 1”. Layers of dusky grays are layered to render a nightime skyline merging with rolling hillsides, copses of cypress, and a distant mountain top crowned in a full moon seen across a sea of fog. Schwaberow unintentionally exhibits his ability to capture the intimacy found in nature’s remoteness without relying on color, expertly quilting together a narrative of peace and tranquility through the use of shape, texture, and tonality.