Pale green prickly pear cacti with delicate spines rise from the lower third of a deep black ground, their rounded paddles catching soft light against the dark void. The composition is spare and architectural, emphasizing the quiet geometry of the plants while the black void creates dramatic negative space and an almost meditative stillness. Bound with 52 pages of 70lb paper, lined or unlined, behind an anti-scuff matte cover with wraparound artwork, made to order. Notes and sketches kept behind an independent artist's work, not a plain composition cover.