The Wood Element
These are a selection of works drawn for the island element of wood. I am humbled and awed in the company of trees, truly advanced beings, so that even their death-remains serve multiple functions, in this case structural and scriptural.
I find my process most productive when I work across disciplines, simultaneously. In this case, many of the Drift Glyph prints seen here were printed closely after or before constructing one of the driftwood forms (or even from sometimes the same pieces of wood.) The structures are meant to be temporary and ephemeral: they are creations in a place, from a place, and of the place. The prints are the transcribed narrative of that place, in the language that the wood holds in memory.
The forms are left for public interaction, many times constructed in shoreline locations only ‘accessbile’ by water, and likely seen by no human audience. Others are on public island trails, or in peoples’ yards and gardens, and garner a lot of interaction. Their uses vary.
The Drift Glyphs continue to evolve as I discover more, and stranger, messages from the island’s eroding shorelines and increasingly advancing tideline.
The Fire Element
The Water Element
The Metal Element
SALT
BONE
