I'm beginning to understand that my small abstract paintings and reliefs that I thought were about construction sites and building foundations are also like trees. I think it's that building block idea. It is the structure and formal line and shape associated with many things and i am discovering more and more of them. I have always been interested in the Frobel Kindergarden model and building blocks as the origin of more complicated structure.
Now that I am in the wood's and tree's have become an everyday experience I am seeing them differently than before.
Nature is as structured as architecture and sometimes more ordered than it appears without closer observation. I tell my drawing students that drawing is about learning to see. Look closer.
The vertical lines and spaces between the tree's as well as the tree's themselves. The horizontal lines of the landscape including the horizon line.
So now I'm excited about planting more tree's and I want to pursue the Joseph Beuy's 7000 Oaks project. I am doing a project with Shorewood Middle School soon and I want to plant a few trees. Tree's and stones paired up to interact in the landscape.
