TREES
Trees Series.
Ink and watercolor on arranged Post-it Notes.
Sizes are variable but are roughly framed at 10 inches by 8 inches.
Ink and watercolor on arranged Post-it Notes.
Sizes are variable but are roughly framed at 10 inches by 8 inches.
The main proposition In Stephen Meyers book The End of the Wild is that human influence and dominance has fundamentally changed what is “The Wild” and by default a radical shift or reframing is necessary when we discuss the natural world. What we think of as “nature” and so-called “wild spaces” no longer exists. Humans and human dominated interests now define, govern, and direct what the natural world is. In my series Trees, I am exploring those themes and that philosophical tract around nature and technology through the images of cell towers placed on Post-It Notes. Cell towers are an unintentional analogous proxy for trees in the 21st century and thus are a form of the new human made “nature”. Cell Towers aesthetically resemble trees in shape and form while also providing a tree-like covering that historian James Burke would refer to as the “Warm blanket of technology.” Cell towers connect and provide the basic invisible infrastructure that makes modern technological society function. The use of Post-it notes in these pieces reinforces the themes of technology and collaborative communication as well as providing an additional design element that provides shape, flow, and color to the compositions.
