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Rooted to

I’ve got a new short essay about an aged apple tree in my backyard in this wonderfully curated collection of tree-themed writing. Now available via bookshop and elsewhere.

“Series editor Josh MacIvor-Andersen returns with tales of birth, death, resurrection and reincarnation. Sagas of leaving and returning, of harrowing bravery and crippling fear. Lyric essays about moon trees and space debris, personal narratives braiding the assassination of JFK (on Elm Street!) with the resilience of a relationship and the suffering of surgery. Fruit, both ripe and rotted, bees and blossoms, roots and branches pruned, broken, or holding their own. Just like us. Just like all of us.”

tags: Books, words, Trees, writing, essays
Friday 08.25.23
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Everyone Needs a Good Tree Washing

Tree Stump Paintings by Bryan Nash Gill

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tags: Tree washing a, Trees, Bryan Nash Gill
Monday 03.23.15
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A Tree Draws for Tim Knowles

"Tree Drawing - Japanese Wingnut #1", 2011 ink on paper, HD video drawing: 28 x 22" / 71.1 x 55.9 cm video: 35 x 22" / 88.9 x 55.9 cm, 23 min 23 sec loop In this series of automatic drawings, formal elements are open to mechanisms or phenomena beyond the artist's control -- seeking to reveal the hidden, or otherwise unnoticed motion of objects. Working in the Boston area last fall, Knowles attached pens to the branches of Redwood, Pine, Wingnut, Larch, Acer, Sassafras and Spruce trees. As the tip of each branch blew across paper, a moment was captured by the mark-making process. Like a signature, each system revealed the characteristics of an otherwise unnoticed physical experience. Please note this is only a video excerpt, the completed drawing can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/AghbSi To learn more about Knowles' work please visit: bit.ly/wOIeIi http://bit.ly/wVd5m6
tags: Tim Knowles, artists I like, Trees, Tree washing, Art
Tuesday 03.04.14
Posted by felicity fenton
 
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Go outside. Good things happen outside.