7ree3utte, is, as it sounds, an ode to trees. The patterns on birchwood panels sometimes make my heart beat quickly. I thought, it would be a shame to lose that forever, it’s a work of art in its own right. I felt the need to preserve the patterns, enhance them, and bring them to life with the figures and forms that felt familiar in the curves and rings.
This is a collaboration, bringing together the creativity of human and of trees, our angels, the makers of the oxygen we breathe. We’ve long felt a spiritual connection with them as organisms. The forms of their roots, leaves, branches and bark epitomize an unlimited sensuality, mirroring the flow and arrangement of water, stars, matter, neurons, veins, electricity, and the virtual structure of information on the internet. These are the kinds of patters I find meaningful in the universe. They make me feel connected to everything. What could I, alone, make that would surpass the elegance of these patterns?
This organism had stretched toward the sky for years or decades before it was sacrificed, sliced, glued, and sanded smooth for our entertainment and convenience, so that it could be slathered in marble dust, pigment and polymer emulsion derived from paingstainkinly mined materials and transported and processed then transported and packaged then transported and displayed and, finally, sold to me in exchange for an abstract misrepresentation of my labor hours. I feel a sense of awe for its sacrifice, and for that of the millions of humans that came together to make it exist. I wanted to preserve and celebrate that ritualistic process, while also paying my respects.
I create works that situates myself as an artist in the wide and intertwined world. Human with nature, technology with biology, mind with body: three continuums misrepresented as dualities.
Treebutte is a part of a larger series I call UT0PI4P0C4LYPS3 which explores similar themes. Please visit my P0RTF0L10 to view my work.
Tribute to Trees pt. 1 June 2017
Underwater (Tribute to Trees Pt. II) November 2017
Primordial Slime September 2017
7REE3UTTE 7ree3utte, is, as it sounds, an ode to trees. The patterns on birchwood panels sometimes make my heart beat quickly.
