Description
The Elm Tree artist book is a small two-sided rectangular weaving with a photograph of an elm tree and a story of looking for an elm tree. To make this work, two copies of the photograph and text were printed on paper. The reverse side of the weaving is scrambled due to the artist’s particular way of weaving.
The Elm Tree (text in the weaving)
One autumn afternoon I headed out for a long bicycle ride. I was looking for two things, reeds and grasses for making paper and elm leaves to use as models for sculpting a series of wooden books that I hoped to make. The day was bright and warm as I took off down a bike trail in the country. There were a multitude of oak trees, maple and pine, but elm seemed much scarcer. As I passed an older couple also on bicycles, I spied at last in the distance on the top of a hill a lone coveted elm tree. I pulled up beside it and stood there admiring its long lean trunk and elegant branches reaching high in the sky, much too high for me to reach its leaves. At that moment, the biker couple crossed my path and the gentleman bellowed out to me, “That’s an elm tree, there’s nothing there!” I turned and said, “There are elm leaves.”
Le livre d’artiste The Elm Tree est un petit tissage rectangulaire à deux faces, avec une photographie d’un orme et une histoire de recherche d’un orme. Pour réaliser cette œuvre, deux copies de la photographie et du texte ont été imprimées sur papier. L’envers du tissage est brouillé en raison de la manière particulière de tisser de l’artiste.