"JPod Visits Quartermaster Harbor"
"JPod Visits Quartermaster Harbor"
This original 36” x 36” linocut was created as a tribute to two wonderful and magical days in November 2023 when JPod came to Vashon and spent the night. This linocut made its debut at the Big Print Event on July 28, 2024 on Vashon Island. At the event, with the help of a steamroller and a team of printmakers, two artist prints were made and subsequently sold at Vashon Center for the Arts.
Immediately available are fine art prints of the original 36” x 36” linocut on 9” x 12” paper. There are three versions of the 9” x 12” print. Each version is limited series of 100. These fine art prints are packaged in a clear sleeve with a backer board. The story of JPod’s visit to Vashon Island is on the rear of the backer board.
Available PREORDER: The artist will create a limited series of ten prints of the original 36” x 36” linoleum. The 36” x 36” image will be printed by hand using oil-based ink on 38” x 38” paper. Handprinting linoleum this large is arduous and time consuming, but results in a higher quality print than the steamroller could make. Once all ten prints are made, the linoleum will be cut to create a derivative work and no more prints can be made. This AMAZING piece will be "framed" for hanging using a solid wood large print hanger.
In 2015, 18 members of the endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale J Pod entered outer Quartermaster Harbor only to depart 20 minutes later. On November 5, 2023, all 25 members of J Pod again entered outer Quartermaster Harbor, but this time they kept going all the way to the inner harbor.
Word spread quickly through texts and social media. By sunset, Jensen Point was packed with whale watchers. What a show it was. The whales swam together in tight formations. They slapped their tails. They spy-hopped. They did not forage. Lit only by the light of the moon, J Pod spent the entire night in the harbor. Their tail slapping and respiratory sounds echoed across the water and wafted through island windows. Their visit was many things. Mysterious. Magical. Unreal. Beautiful. Unforgettable.
On November 6, J Pod made their exit as curiously as they came. Just after sunrise, they porpoised together at four times their usual rate of speed out of Quartermaster and past Manzanita where a lone photographer experienced the fly-by of a lifetime. J Pod turned the corner and headed north up Colvos Passage toward home.