A real mensch. Love his work. Some of it is pretty trippy. Morris was tapping in to something big and deep. A quick image search of his name + “botanical” will reward the curious. And there’s a few articles I like:
(wow those woodblocks are… intense)
and
With a natural eye for pattern, Morris produced papers that not only balanced figuration and order, but which were (unusually for the time) distinctive.
Ok, yeah, distinctive would definitely apply…
I can’t possibly imagine living in a house with an interior covered in his wallpaper. What did such living space do to the minds of its occupants? Did they achieve a level of an enlightenment? Did they become aware of the immanantizing of the eschaton?
Sigh.
Thanks for reminding me of a really cool Happy Mutant from another era. I believe his influence lives on in the works of creative folks like
