Colorful artwork titled 'Heartbeat' depicting two stylized palm trees against a vibrant pink, orange, and green background with mountains in the distance.

Titled Heartbeat, this print depicts two stylized palm trees against a multi-color gradient background incorporating pink, orange, and green tones, with mountains visible in the distance. The vivid color field suggests extensive use of bokashi, requiring multiple wiped impressions to layer the pink-orange-green transitions across the picture plane. The composition follows a meisho-e structure of a foreground motif — the paired palm trees — set against a deep recessional landscape of mountains and sky. The stylization of the palms — flat silhouettes rather than detailed renderings — reflects mokuhanga's preference for graphic clarity over illusionistic depth. Spitzack's color choices push beyond the muted natural palettes typical of historical Japanese landscape prints toward a contemporary American chromatic vocabulary. The work sits within his broader engagement with tropical and coastal American subjects, transposed through the inherited Japanese vocabulary of layered registered blocks, hand-rubbed impressions with the baren, and water-based pigments printed on absorbent washi.