Fire Fly Ferns (2024) is a unique serigraph printed on a handmade black fabric-like paper with hand-glued embellishments. According to the artist MaryAnn Miller, "This piece is part of a series depicting a small catastrophe in my fern garden. The entire bed of ferns collapsed overnight because of high temperatures. I used paper and ink to honor this loss. The poem [below] speaks to that loss and to hope for renewal."

“Something is out of sync in the seasons, the fern hum in chartreuse orchestra, our roots remain, look for us to fiddle next spring.” 

The  black lokta paper is a sustainable  Nepalese  paper.

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