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Captured close to my home location of Charcott in Kent. A row of Oak Trees captured late afternoon with an unusual cloud formation
I thought the tangle of roots was interesting, and tried to capture the creepiness of that against the happy blue sky
From the artist:
Potential reflects on the positive possibilities of regeneration and the opportunities of replacing diseased ash trees. In time, can the ash tree rise once again, through the power and potential of seed?
Potential is an installation comprising suspended sculptural columns made of slivers of bent ash. The work seeks to capture the forms and movement of ash seeds falling to the ground. The repeating, helicoptering forms suspended in time are inspired by the tree's distinctive, delicate, wing-like seeds - 'keys' - dispersed by gravity and wind.
The work explores the extraordinary movement of the falling ash seed. Its curls of ash shift and change, as do the volumes, shapes, patterns and planes. The interplay of each sculptural column creates pockets of space, allowing light to be caught and shadows thrown.
Drawing and the language of line is the foundation to this work. The drawings were made using scientific research papers exploring the aerodynamics of free-falling ash seeds, alongside observing ash trees in nature. The sculptural columns of Potential are three-dimensional drawings; intangible and ephemeral observations of an ash tree captured in ash wood.
Well, the big 80 mph winds are over, tons of damage, deaths-one of our worst Puget Sound storms. My favorite Rotary Park trails was blocked by a giant tree and I wasn't about to do limbo to get under it. This smaller tree captured my attention. View this larger.