Alembic Print

I have done a number of tree pieces over the years of various sizes. They consist of a painted background sheetof cotton muslin lined rag paper with found imagery applied using trasfers made with a color photocopier intended for the application of images to t-shirts. I repurposed them to putting imagery onto the painted surfaces of my artworks. The pieces feature relief assemblages of trees and roots made with laminated ribbons of basswood to make the trunk and the curved branches, the roots are carved all-rag museum board and the leaves are variously metal, wood, museum board. In this particular case I was thinking about the word alembic which is a chemistry instrument whose roots are in alchemy where it was used to attempt to turn base elements into gold. But it occurred to me after reading about botanists who use particular plants to clean up polluted areas of ground that a tree is a sort of alembic in that it converts one element into others by its natural processes and so metaphorically by putting a diverse collection of references (images) in the leaves it becomes a vehicle for transformation fo ideas, of concepts.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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