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A chubby little jar in moss celadon with red clay “berry” accents, topped by a perky little bird as the knob. Impressed with mulberry leaves. The church-key pattern on the lid and near the base is brushed with a red-iron oxide wash.
7” tall by 5” in diameter
This one’s a stunner. Extra-large bowl with a central cameo, in iron glaze, of a peony leaf. The cameo is surrounded by a narrow band of iron-oxide-washed church-key points. Surrounding that is a frieze, in amber, of a winding porcelain vine and leaves, surrounded, in turn, by more church-key points. Black trim and exterior. Dishwasher safe, but it won’t fit.
16.5” in diameter by 4” deep
Serve your iced tea in a pitcher with attitude. Impressed with bleeding heart leaves and glazed in two shades of blue with black trim. Holds 6.5 cups of whatever liquid you wish to put into it.
8” tall by 8.5” by 6”
One of my New Gilded Age protest pieces, with some completely unnecessary gold accenting the storm blue glaze on the interior and black on the exterior. Graced with the impression of the very poisonous water hemlock. Please hand-wash only.
3.5” deep by 8.5” diameter.
Just the right size for holding pet treats, (or people treats) this lidded jar has a 4.5 cup capacity. The black cohosh leaf impressions are glazed in a darker blue celadon on a background of cornflower blue. Trimmed in yellow/green.
7” tall by 6” diameter
Just the right size for holding pet treats, (or people treats) this lidded jar has a 2 cup capacity. Impressed with pleasingly-palmate cleome leaves. Glazed in light green celadon and trimmed in light blue.
5” tall by 4.5” wide.
Perfect for holding leftovers in the fridge, then warming them up in the microwave. Or putting a lid on your dog’s food, which she refuses to eat all at once. Holds 2 cups of whatever. Glazed in cornflower blue with sapphire trim and interior, and impressed with the delicate fronds of cosmos.
5” tall by 6” diameter
Treat your guests like royalty by providing them with 5 cups of fresh water in this sapphire blue carafe with matching cup. Impressed with porcelain vine leaves and tendrils. Or, put it at your own bedside filled with 5 cups of scotch. What the heck!
8” tall with the cup on it. 6.5” tall by itself, by 4.5” diameter
One of my New Gilded Age protest pieces, with some completely unnecessary gold framing nine blackbirds on a wire. This is a diminutive pot, but all dressed-up in gold and black. Understand that this is over-the-top on purpose. Picture the Oval Office, which is not over-the-top on purpose. Please hand-wash only.
4” tall by 3” diameter.
New Prints: Bearing Witness Volume 1
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Jan. 21-23 depicts a chickadee, squirrel, and bluebirds.
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Jan. 21-23 depicts a chickadee, squirrel, and bluebirds.
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Jan. 21-23 depicts a ruby-crowned kinglet, tufted titmouse, and bluejays.
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Jan 31-Feb 2, 2025 depicts a white-tailed deer, and white-throated sparrow, a chipping sparrow, and rhododendron
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Feb 3-5, 2025 depicts a great blue heron, a Carolina wren, and Virginia pine
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Feb 6-8, 2025 depicts a Northern cardinal, a dark-eyed junco, and cedar waxwings
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Feb 9-11, 2025 depicts a hairy woodpecker and an Eastern cottontail
Bearing Witness is the title I chose for a project I began at the beginning of Trump’s second term in office. I kept a field-notes style notebook, in which I recorded what I saw in the natural world around me as well as monitoring the news of our democracy under attack. It was both healing and disturbing to keep up this practice daily, but it was my way of bearing witness to the fragility and beauty of both nature and our political reality.
Often, I found it difficult to choose which bits of the bountiful natural world I wanted to bring attention to in any given period. It was even more difficult to choose which bits of the news to highlight. The juxtaposition is meant to be jarring and thought-provoking.
Each page is packed with information, including the common and Latin names of each species, the date I saw it, and sometimes some notes on the location where I saw it. On the top right are the coordinates of where I was during the period covered; the top left indicates the dates covered, and these vary in length. Also included on each page is the date, source , and authors of the news clips I’ve included.
I followed a few of my own “rules.” I had to “see” or “hear” a species to include it. Wherever possible, I used my own photographs as references for the drawings, but I sometimes had to resort to finding reference images on-line. For the most part, these pages bear witness to the flora and fauna of Albemarle County, Virginia, but I also travelled to Wisconsin and to the UK during the past year. Though the flora and fauna from those pages reflect what I saw in those locations, the news bits stayed focused on what was going in in the U.S. I may have made a few errors in species identification, and for that I apologize.
All images: Copyright 2026 by Suzanne Crane.
11” x 14” giclee print, signed and numbered in an edition of 50, on archival paper.
Feb 12-17, 2025 depicts a Virginia opossum, a North American river otter, and a brown thrasher
My Bearing Witness book will be available by the end of October, just in time for the midterms! I’m printing it in 9” x 12” format, so all of the images will be just about the same size as my notebook pages. There are 64 full-color pages, plus an introduction, list of the 212 species included, and the URLs for all of the news sources I quoted. For the price of ONE of my 11×14 signed and numbered giclee prints, you can have a book holding all of them! I know it seems expensive, but self-publishing a signed edition of 100 copies isn’t cheap. I hope you’ll see the value of holding the whole project in your hands at once. And then, if you fall in love with any of the particular pages, you can order a fine art print for your wall.
I am taking pre-orders now, so you can reserve your limited-edition, signed and numbered copy. 140 pages, perfect bound, full color.
You can have this shipped or come to Mud Dauber Pottery to pick up your copy.