Bower

By James Wada

A surrealist, highly detailed black ink drawing executed with stipple and cross-hatch shading techniques on a cream-colored background. The composition portrays a fantastical, fragmented forest scene that appears to float or dissolve into negative space. At the center stands a prominent, textured tree trunk rendered with dense vertical lines. Its branches reach upward to cradle a large, transparent or negative-space sphere outlined by shaded, crescent-like leaf structures at the top of the composition. Surrounding the central tree are smaller, jagged tree trunks, rocky outcrops, and patches of dense foliage that create floating island-like formations. The artwork leaves vast areas of the cream paper blank, giving the entire forest landscape an airy, dreamlike, and ethereal quality.
Medium: Pen on paper
Dimensions: 36″ x 24″

Quote / Inspiration:

“I have hearkened to the song of the nightingale of knowledge upon the twigs of the tree of thine inmost being, and to the cooing of the dove of certitude upon the branches of the bower of thine heart.“

~ Bahá’u’lláh

Artist Information:

James Wada

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