tree – Page 3 – Little Bristling Soul

Janine Antoni, Graft, 2013, maple tree, maple table, urethane resin

Connie Merriman, Tree House, 2010

Materials

Dawn Redwood tree, light, paper, wood

Artist Statement

I have always wanted a tree house. When I was young, I spent a lot of time in the top of a cherry tree that grew in a wood adjacent to my home. You could be quiet in the branches and watch animals walking the paths below. I thought it would be good to have a shelter for myself in the tree so that I could be more safe and comfortable. Now I think of a tree house in another way. In a gesture to address the issues of stewardship, this fragile house is made to shelter a tree, and the natural world it represents, from humanity’s built environment. It is a house for a tree.

Source: mattress.org

Rona Pondick, Pussy Willow Tree, 2001, stainless steel

arterialtrees:

Vincent van Gogh, Study, 1890

Rona Pondick, Helen Curtis, 2005-6, painted bronze and rocks, 24 x 25 x 23 inches

Yoko Ono, Wish Tree

“As a child in Japan, I used to go to a temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin paper and tie it around the branch of a tree. Trees in temple courtyards were always filled with people’s wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar.”

—Yoko Ono: ‘All My Works Are A Form Of Wishing’