10 x 6 x 1 1/2 inches
I made this several weeks ago, late April/early May, when I was in the midst of working on the mycelium web part of my piece for Adkins Arboretum. I literally had my hands completely immersed in creating the network of “threads” and my brain in thinking about connections and relationships between trees and plants. I have been using sewn thread, and always leaving loose ends, in my mixed media work for the past twenty years to reference the idea that we are all connected. Still not giving up on that! This time the threads are not loose. I tied the threads together coming down from both trees.
The fun thing about this piece is I had used my tree image to make gifts for the participants of my workshop retreat from last summer. They were pretty small. When I made them, I was like, ooh, I need to come back to this image and go bigger. So I did this spring finally with this piece. However, 10×6 inches is still pretty small, ha! BUT I actually went even bigger recently. That was fun. Will share that soon.
So much destruction is happening right now and I often wonder how will we ever be able to repair. The title came to me while listening to this interview of Kazu Haga. I highly recommend listening to the Green Dreamer podcast in general.
I was invited to be part of a group show this summer that has to do with forests and woods, so I have been happily creating some tree pieces.
“I’m planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.” ~Andrea Koehle Jones