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Sculpture, Wood on Wood
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One morning I came to school and two massive tulip trees were being pushed over to make room for a new apartment building. I was able to salvage large sections, by cutting them into pieces I could move myself. As the wood has dried over the next 15-20 years and I have used it for sculpture, I have tried to keep these pieces as large as possible. It is unusual to see such chunks of this wood, a fact I continue to appreciate. Almost as a memorial, I constructed this piece and carved into a section the scientific name of the wood, Liriodendron Tulipifera, and the GPS location where they grew in Carbondale, Illinois. To me, the former existence of these trees greatly eclipses the value of the apartment building.
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28 W x 47 H x 29 D in
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Much of my practice includes collecting and preparing wood from local trees. When I began this process years ago, the material came from friends or neighbors who cut down trees and offered the wood to me. Now I have many trees on my property that may drop large branches. Most require careful and regular pruning. Recently I was forced to take down a sugar maple that was rotting from the inside out. This provided me with a considerable amount material that is dense and quite excellent. It also provided much of the material used to make “Red Fence.” The scroll form in the piece was made with wood I saved from pruning pear trees some years ago. I’d like to think that my work functions like poetry, except it uses forms instead of words to evoke thoughts and feelings that lie deep and barely realized.
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