Aesop's Wood - Colour kitchen Lydia particularly interested in comics

Lydia particularly interested in comics

with a population that has declined by 95% since the 1980s

This piece was created in 2006 as part of an ongoing series of cityscape prints

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Aesop's Wood - Colour kitchen Lydia particularly interested in comicsThe fable that inspired my etching is 'The Fir Tree and the Bramble'; Deep in a forest, a fir tree boasted to a bramble 'You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.' Then the Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to cut you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir Tree.' The moral of the story is that renown is