The Landmark Tree
Handmade artist’s black and white photobook, (each page ~4”T X 2.25”W X variable fully opened) hand sewn with waxed bookbinding thread, paper and satin hinges, Piezography printing on Japanese Cloud Dragon long fiber paper. Each book has a tiny stone and twig from the location where the work was made, in the strange space between Northerly Island and 12th St Beach in Chicago.
Edition of 25 with variations
Each book is signed and numbered and comes in a lovely hand sewn bag with embroidery. Bag materials vary.
I fell in love with the solitary tree facing the lake bravely each day in this fraught landscape, reminding me of ourselves in this moment, precariously still alive, the outcome not yet certain.
Artist Statement
This work, “Landmark Tree,” centers on a single tree teetering on the possibility of failure or life. Sitting at the center of this small book, this photographic text, creates an intimate experience, inviting the viewer into precariousness, to join the tree, a tentative survivor at the margins, with full humility, in this challenging, human-built landscape of neglect. Though the landscape may appear at first glance to be a place of natural beauty, yet with closer examination, it reveals itself as a landscape of threat, and as such, the tree becomes a surrogate for us, in this anthropocene age, facing survival, only tentatively.
Handmade artist’s black and white photobook, (each page ~4”T X 2.25”W X variable fully opened) hand sewn with waxed bookbinding thread, paper and satin hinges, Piezography printing on Japanese Cloud Dragon long fiber paper. Each book has a tiny stone and twig from the location where the work was made, in the strange space between Northerly Island and 12th St Beach in Chicago.
Edition of 25 with variations
Each book is signed and numbered and comes in a lovely hand sewn bag with embroidery. Bag materials vary.
I fell in love with the solitary tree facing the lake bravely each day in this fraught landscape, reminding me of ourselves in this moment, precariously still alive, the outcome not yet certain.
Artist Statement
This work, “Landmark Tree,” centers on a single tree teetering on the possibility of failure or life. Sitting at the center of this small book, this photographic text, creates an intimate experience, inviting the viewer into precariousness, to join the tree, a tentative survivor at the margins, with full humility, in this challenging, human-built landscape of neglect. Though the landscape may appear at first glance to be a place of natural beauty, yet with closer examination, it reveals itself as a landscape of threat, and as such, the tree becomes a surrogate for us, in this anthropocene age, facing survival, only tentatively.
Handmade artist’s black and white photobook, (each page ~4”T X 2.25”W X variable fully opened) hand sewn with waxed bookbinding thread, paper and satin hinges, Piezography printing on Japanese Cloud Dragon long fiber paper. Each book has a tiny stone and twig from the location where the work was made, in the strange space between Northerly Island and 12th St Beach in Chicago.
Edition of 25 with variations
Each book is signed and numbered and comes in a lovely hand sewn bag with embroidery. Bag materials vary.
I fell in love with the solitary tree facing the lake bravely each day in this fraught landscape, reminding me of ourselves in this moment, precariously still alive, the outcome not yet certain.
Artist Statement
This work, “Landmark Tree,” centers on a single tree teetering on the possibility of failure or life. Sitting at the center of this small book, this photographic text, creates an intimate experience, inviting the viewer into precariousness, to join the tree, a tentative survivor at the margins, with full humility, in this challenging, human-built landscape of neglect. Though the landscape may appear at first glance to be a place of natural beauty, yet with closer examination, it reveals itself as a landscape of threat, and as such, the tree becomes a surrogate for us, in this anthropocene age, facing survival, only tentatively.