4 December 2019 | Holy Hollow
This is the logs that were created a few weeks ago from felled Ash trees and some dead fall.
My 80+ year old neighbor energetically helped me split it (with a hydraulic gas powered splitter) and as we worked he asked what I see, artistically, in the split wood. It was hard to give an immediate answer. Coasters, table lamps, etc...the usual.
When my wife came to help, the two of them operated the splitter while I got busy stacking the 4 species being thrown at me randomly, on top and to the left of last year’s effort.
If you look closely, you will see that the bottom half of the left side is stacked as randomly as it was split. This was done hastily while we worked as a twosome. Vicki’s arrival allowed time for a more thoughtful approach.
After all left, I took a few minutes to document the evidence of our labor, and recognized that once again, the essence of art is the arrangement of things in a space.
The felled, bucked, and split wood itself is art. The end.
