Remnants

Remnants is a mokuhanga landscape that engages with what persists after seasonal or ecological change — standing dead trees, ice-scoured shoreline, late-autumn grasses, or the skeletal geometry of bare branches against winter sky. Brodbeck's palette in this type of work typically shifts toward restrained ochres, warm greys, and muted earth tones, with cooler atmospheric passages handled through dilute, transparent pigment layers on washi. The compositional interest likely lies in the interplay between absence and presence: forms defined by what has been removed or stripped rather than by fullness. This ecological attention is consistent with Brodbeck's broader practice of documenting the northern Great Lakes landscape across seasons.