Tiny Trees

I recently came across some 35 mm film from my trip to Germany in the spring of 2007. Tara Cooper and I traveled there together for an international printmaking show and residency at the Kloster Bentlage Museum in Rhine. We traveled by train though Frankfurt, Cologne and other small towns along the Rhine River. While passing through one train station (which one, I can't recall) we stumbled upon this intricate train set in the lobby.

It's curious, looking back at these images, to see that my framing centers on the foliage in the landscape, opposed to the buildings, trains or bridges. These photos were taken prior to my plant-based works, but they hint at some things I was thinking about during that time in graduate school. These images are also of interest to me because of a project I'm currently working on that involves constructing miniature landscapes. I've been thinking more about scale relationships in photographic images.

Unearthed

This remarkable work by Jack Elliot, entitled Victus (2013), is part of the Beyond Earth Art exhibition currently on view at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art through June 8th. Sitting at the entrance to the museum, this exhumed sugar maple has been meticulously cleared of dirt, clay and rocks, and it's root system cut to a circular form.

Elliot is an Associate Professor of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University. More of his work can be found here.
 

Jack Elliot, Victus, 2013  / photo: Lindsey Glover

At the top of Stratton Mountain

Last winter Lou and I took a snowboarding trip to Stratton Mountain in Vermont. We arrived after the snow had come though. The clouds had cleared and the ski was a vibrant blue. The snowfall caked the pine trees in thick covering, merging them into a mass of confectionary forms. It reminded me of a bright, warm day at the beach where the sheer vastness of reflective surface area creates a light-emitting landscape. Despite the elevation it felt warm and calm up there in the sun and the snow, everything melting into bold color and light.

A Balsam Fir

A small tree farm on the outskirts of Trumansburg, NY.

Three Topiary Trees

A set of trimmed trees in Blue Bird Square in Olean, NY. I love that someone has this job. These three were looking freshly trimmed on the day I was back in my hometown for the Southern Teir Biennial (exhibiting one of my tree prints, Pruned Plume no less).  

This image may resurface as a print one day as well.  
P.S. These rounded trees are also really magical when covered in lights around Christmas.

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A tree from a window

September of last year I was visiting Jackson, WY. I was there as part of an exhibition at the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts, showing with a great group of artists I had met at the Ucross Foundation– Jenny Dowd, Mayme Kratz and Ruth Boerefijn. Here are a couple tree studies from my trip and some exhibition images. The three-channel video made for some interesting shadows. This show was the first time I had onlookers dance in front of one of my projection installations (to no sound other than wind). Very awesome. They even got me to join in.

Digital Double Exposure

I regularly pass this grove on my drive from Trumansburg into Ithaca. My iPhone captured these trees with a ghosting effect as I was riding past, making grey silhouettes. The afterimage reminds me of a woodblock print.