White Pine Religion Limited Edition Print
White Pine Religion Limited Edition Print
White Pine Religion limited edition, signed and numbered prints by Jennifer Drinkwater.
Edition of 100. Each piece is printed on high-quality Hahnemuhle photo rag paper measuring 14" H x 17" that includes a white 1.5" border suitable for matting and framing. Please allow two weeks for shipping and handling.
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Please note: print does not come matted or framed.
Twenty percent of sales support the Friends of the Porkies.
The community conversation that inspired White Pine Religion…
I spent an afternoon interviewing Nancy Franz, Iowa State University Professor Emerita of Education, about Michigan’s Porcupine Mountains. The Porcupine Mountains, or the Porkies as they’re commonly called, is home to the largest old growth forest east of the Mississippi in the United States. Once 150,000 acres, it now stands at roughly 38,000 acres in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan along Lake Superior. Per Michigan.gov, the Porcupine Mountains “arise abruptly from Lake Superior to form a 12-mile long escarpment which parallels the lakeshore...at 2 billion years old, the mountains are a section of one of the oldest mountain chains in the world.”
Here’s how Nancy described her favorite place on earth: “To this day, white pine is my tree. If I had a religion, it would be the white pine religion...My spiritual being is that old-growth forest…And that's where everything feels peaceful, comfortable, right in the world. When there were tough times in my life, that's where I could go to regain balance.” - Nancy Franz, Ames, Iowa.
