Beech

Beech trunks in Stromovka as inscriptive sites. Set of 3 photographs mounted on and framed with white passe-partouts and set in beech frames, displayed either vertically or horizontally in series.[Thwarted by pillar which would not accept drillied holes, the framed pictures ended on window ledge.]

Installation view, Obejvák Art Studio, Kolbenova, Prague, 21-22 July 2016

The images:

Markings on beech tree trunks. "Beech" and "book" are held to share a common etymology in the German “Buch” - although etymologists differ on this point. (Anselm Kiefer coalesced the two meanings in some of his wooden books.) An accumulation of inscriptions over time is recorded on beech tree bark at human eye-level, the marks in various stages of metamorphosis. The readings one can take from the trunk belong to one's own presence.

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