Mar 6, 2016
Recompose (Wall Installation) Recompose (Wall Installation) I spent one uncomfortably hot summer day wading and swimming in Lookout Creek in the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. In a logjam on the edge of the creek is a bone-white naked log with a small patch of fungus following the log’s longitudinal cracks. I almost missed it because it was so small and unassuming. When I saw it, I instantly fell in love with it. Window-like holes created by insects open into the interior of the log revealing ribbons of cubical brown rot, cellulose long gone. Fungus, like an...
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Mar 1, 2014
During my residency at HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in 2012 I became fascinated by intricate burrows in logs and snags with the bark stripped away. Bark beetles created the burrows, as if writing poetry for us to find, in a language that we have some vague recollection of once knowing, but have now forgotten. Beetle Poem I Gouache on paper, 30 in. x 22 1/2 in. Beetle Poem II Gouache on paper, 22 1/2 in. x 30 in. Work-In-Progress for Beetle Drawings Beetle Drawings Oct 21, 2012Gouache During the residency at H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest I worked on one gouache painting. The last time I...
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